Brian

“Resistance to simplification is based on the belief that every additional feature, part, and function represents an improvement.”
― Dan Ward, The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse

“Repeatedly in the nineteenth century, western cities came into being when eastern capital created remote colonies in landscapes that as yet contained relatively few people. Movements of capital helped explain why large cities developed so much more quickly in the West than Turner’s evolutionary frontier stages suggest.”
― William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

“What you want—really, deeply want—is fundamental because deliberate practice is a heavy investment.”
― Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

“We have become dependent upon our technologies to navigate the world, to hold intelligent conversation, to write intelligently, and to remember.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things