“Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” could”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The hardest part of design is getting the requirements right, which means ensuring that the right problem is being solved, as well as that the solution is appropriate. Requirements made in the abstract are invariably wrong. Requirements produced by asking people what they need are invariably wrong. Requirements are developed by watching people in their natural environment.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“market-driven pressures plus an engineering-driven company yield ever-increasing features, complexity, and confusion. But even companies that do intend to search for human needs are thwarted by the severe challenges of the product development process, in particular, the challenges of insufficient time and insufficient money.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Instead of taking the camp’s difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The colonies, it seems, were societies of contending classes—a fact obscured by the emphasis, in traditional histories, on the external struggle against England, the unity of colonists in the Revolution. The country therefore was not “born free” but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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