uncertainty

“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” — scientist Richard Feynman (in this interview [youtube clip])

“To create a space that never existed is what interests me.” — architect Daniel Libeskind (on TED Talks, shown here)

“I’ve come to the conclusion that men don’t make history, I think history makes personalities.” — novelist Joseph Heller (in this interview [youtube clip]) (This clip also contains some interesting (moreso in hindsight) commentary about John Kennedy’s election over Richard Nixon)

“And one of the first things they did was they tried to take the comics page as is and transplant it to monitors, which is a classic McLuhanesque mistake of appropriating the shape of the previous technology as the content of the new technology.” — cartoonist Scott McCloud (on TED Talks here)

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