“I have learned in my life that there are two kinds of people. The weak and the strong. Those who are truly strong try and lift others to make them feel just as strong. Those who are weak do their best to make others feel as helpless as they do. Surround yourself with the strong. Fall in love with the strong.”
― The Outskirts
Tag: Introductions
Gaze and greys
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
styles and shapes
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
pyro
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. Yukihiro Matsumoto
“I knew it” MYMM
two abstractions
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef Albers
tempestuous sea
| “The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.” | |
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
c-circuts
As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species’ brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one’s herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.
Maryanne Wolf
