Andrew

“Properly speaking the artist, the writer, and the scientist should be moved by such an irresistible impulse to create that, even if they were not being paid for their work, they would be willing to pay to get the chance to do it. However, we are in a period in which forms have largely superseded educational content, and one which is moving toward an ever-increasing thinness of educational contents. It is now considered, perhaps more a matter of social prestige to obtain a higher degree and follow what may be regarded as a cultural career, than a matter of any deep impulse.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings : Cybernetics and Society

“Carol was dismayed to find the Christian religion, in America, in the twentieth century, as abnormal as Zoroastrianism – without the splendor.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“But she knew that she still had no plan in life, save always to go along the same streets, past the same people, to the same shops.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“A better strategy for shifting other’s expectations about your work is to consistently deliver what you promise instead of consistently explaining how you’re working.”
― Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload