"Don't be Evil."
Google Motto
Saturday, March 31, 2007
The Word Processor
"Why is the Word Processor called such? How did the word come to rise above the letter, the sentence, the paragraph, the essay and even the page?"
Anonymous
Anonymous
Labels:
Life,
Literature,
Philosophy,
Technology
Friday, March 30, 2007
Wise Men Vs the World
"A truly wise man must know where oneself ends and the world begins."
Anonymous
Anonymous
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Civilisations
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it destroys itself from within."
Will Durant
Historian
Will Durant
Historian
Straight or Politician
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Forgive but not forget
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
An Idea Lives On
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Clean Toilets
"You can at most times tell how well a business is managed by seeing how clean their toilets are."
John C Smith
John C Smith
The Poor Rich
"It's usually the poor that aspire to be rich and the rich that act like they're poor."
Anonymous
Anonymous
Make Better Copies
"If you can't innovate, make better copies."
Anonymous
Anonymous
Labels:
Brands,
Business,
Design,
Innovation
Products, Ads and PR
"Ad campaigns are necessary for competition; IBM's ads are everywhere. But good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves."
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
The Big Questions and Hugging Trees.
"Big Life questions are a luxury for those born with a silver spoon. Hugging trees too."
Ox Lee
Ox Lee
Monday, March 26, 2007
First Telephone
"It's (Macintosh Computer) the first telephone of our industry."
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
Expensive Etch A Sketch
"The Macintosh is the world's most expensive Etch A Sketch."
Apple Macintosh Critic
Apple Macintosh Critic
Cola or Apple?
"Are you going to keep selling sugar water to children all your life when you could be changing the world?"
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
(in a job offer to John Sulley, President of Pepsi-Cola, who later accepted and joined Apple as President)
Steve Jobs
Founder, Apple
(in a job offer to John Sulley, President of Pepsi-Cola, who later accepted and joined Apple as President)
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Failure and Achievement
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Labels:
Brands,
Business,
Icons,
Innovation,
Life,
Psychology
Political Sons
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Friday, March 23, 2007
Repair in Good Times
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Labels:
Brands,
Business,
Icons,
Life,
Psychology
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Cannes Film Festival
"Cannes is a meat market full of sharks. The red carpet is where they eventually dump after they've taken their bite."
David Mcmahon
Indie Film Producer
David Mcmahon
Indie Film Producer
Negotiation
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Labels:
Business,
Icons,
Life,
Psychology,
War
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Paranoid
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you."
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Labels:
Icons,
Music,
Psychology
Change is the law of life
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Free Design Mock-ups
"The other 12 agencies are giving us 3 concepts, 4 mock-ups each, by noon tomorrow. We'll decide who based on budget by 1. Timeline is tight as I said."
Prospective Client
Prospective Client
Monday, March 19, 2007
Be like water
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."
Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."
Bruce Lee
Other people's ideas
"That's what I do for a living. I take other people's ideas and make them better."
Barry Diller
Hollywood Mogul
Barry Diller
Hollywood Mogul
The Designer & The Artist
"The artist owns his brief. The client owns the designer’s brief.
The art itself is the artist’s message. The product is the designer’s message.
The artist has one style. The designer has no style.
The artist expresses problems. The designer solves problems.
The artist prices his work after. The designer prices his work before.
The artist paints. The designer thinks of what the artist should paint.
The artist strokes his own ego. The designer strokes the ego of others.
Everyone pays for the artist's dinner. The designer pays for everyone's dinner.
Art looks beautiful. Design works beautiful.
There is high art. There is no high design.
You don’t have to get the art. You must get the design.
The artist doesn’t kiss butt. The designer is a slut.
The artist dies. The designer gets promoted to creative director.
Eventually the artist fades. Eventually the designer jades."
SPOON Blog
The art itself is the artist’s message. The product is the designer’s message.
The artist has one style. The designer has no style.
The artist expresses problems. The designer solves problems.
The artist prices his work after. The designer prices his work before.
The artist paints. The designer thinks of what the artist should paint.
The artist strokes his own ego. The designer strokes the ego of others.
Everyone pays for the artist's dinner. The designer pays for everyone's dinner.
Art looks beautiful. Design works beautiful.
There is high art. There is no high design.
You don’t have to get the art. You must get the design.
The artist doesn’t kiss butt. The designer is a slut.
The artist dies. The designer gets promoted to creative director.
Eventually the artist fades. Eventually the designer jades."
SPOON Blog
Design Misunderstood
"Design remains the most underutilized and misunderstood tool at the disposal of business."
Peter Lawrence
FastCompany.com
Peter Lawrence
FastCompany.com
Uncool
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
Lester Bangs in Almost Famous
Lester Bangs in Almost Famous
Success is a process
"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life."
Alex Noble
Alex Noble
Talking About Consultants
"Consultants are people who get paid more for talking about doing something rather than actually doing it."
Retired & Rich Consultant
Retired & Rich Consultant
Image & Perception
"Image and perception help drive value; without an image there is no perception"
Scott M. Davis
Scott M. Davis
Branding is about knowing when to keep quiet
"Branding is about knowing when to keep quiet."
Spoon Blog
Spoon Blog
Youtube Empowered Everyone.
"The internet, and Youtube Empowered Everyone. Including the idiots."
Anonymous
Anonymous
Customer Service
"The customer is always right. Good customer service is humouring him when he isn't."
Design is about adopting someone else's problem
"Design is about adopting someone else's problem and dealing with it."
Ox Lee
Ox Lee
Internet Trends Vs. US foreign policy.
"Internet Trends and Psyche are inversely related to US foreign policy."
Ox Lee
Ox Lee
Never Expect The Wind
"One should never expect the wind, but one should always leave the window open."
Wong Kar Wai
Cult Hong Kong Filmmaker
(In The Mood For Love, 2046)
Wong Kar Wai
Cult Hong Kong Filmmaker
(In The Mood For Love, 2046)
It's There To Be Done.
It's There To Be Done.
So just go do it.
Anonymous
So just go do it.
Anonymous
Labels:
Business,
Innovation,
Life,
Psychology
Nobody Knows Anything
"Nobody Knows Anything"
William Goldman, Screenwriter
(Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Marathon Man)
William Goldman, Screenwriter
(Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Marathon Man)
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Patriotism
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Peace by War
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Labels:
Business,
Icons,
Life,
Psychology,
War
Being Local
"If we are local, we'll never be international. If we are international, then we'll truly be local."
Daniel Yun
Mediacorp Raintree Pictures
Daniel Yun
Mediacorp Raintree Pictures
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Conceiving Good Ideas
The only thing better than conceiving good ideas is others acknowledging that they are indeed great ideas and you conceiving more good ideas in turn.
Ox Lee
Ox Lee
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Everyone will have the tools soon...
"Everyone will have the tools soon but not everyone should be using them."
Anonymous
Anonymous
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Big Idea: Living
"My founding big idea was that the subject of living is indeed a limitless subject, one that can be expanded and expounded upon, and enlarged and extoiled."
Martha Stewart
Founder
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Martha Stewart
Founder
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Labels:
Brands,
Business,
Icons,
Innovation,
Life
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Designer Speak
"One way to think of a designer is as somebody who has learned to speak a language that everyone understands but that the designer has been trained to speak."
Peter Lawrence
FastCompany.com
Peter Lawrence
FastCompany.com
Ideas are related to living
Ideas have to be wedded to actions; if there is no sex, no vitality in them, there is no action. Ideas cannot exist in the vacuum of the mind. Ideas are related to living.
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
Begins In The Mind
“The possession of anything begins in the mind”
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Labels:
Brands,
Business,
Icons,
Life,
Psychology
Bend with the wind
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Victory and Defeat
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
"Internet communities for Asians who are, by nature, shy."
"Internet communities and online socialising were invented for Asians who are, by nature, shy."
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Idealist
"I'm an idealist without illusions."
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
John F. Kennedy
US President (1961-1963)
Labels:
Icons,
Innovation,
Life,
Psychology
Monday, March 5, 2007
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
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