Russell Davies

new ideas about new ideas

Just tried to read New Ideas About New Ideas. It may contain some new ideas, but it was so densely written and badly laid-out that I couldn't really persevere with it.

Found a couple of interesting quotes though:

'Our beliefs determine our measurements' - Einstein

'We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are' - Anais Nin

'Reality is nothing but a collective hunch' - Lily Tomlin (The Search For Intelligent Life in The Universe

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top bloke

from an interview with Anthony Lane:

"The truth is, that if you're working on a piece at three in the morning, you're not Keats; you're just late. The glitch in this argument is that I'm not a creative writer. I don't write poetry or novels or drama but criticism, which is the eunuch of the family. I watch other people doing it and talk about what they're doing in a squeaky, high voice."

good, if scary, quotes

"reward excellent failures, punish mediocre success" phil daniels. not that phil daniels. the phil daniels who's CEO of something.

"let's make a dent in the universe" - steve jobs

banal use of beauty

read a quote yesterday which seems like it might apply to brands somehow. I think it's Byron but I can't find any reference to it anywhere; 'we are a portion of everything we've ever loved'

quotes

'america is a vast conspiracy to make you happy' john updike

'ain't no son of a bitch nowhere knows what's going to hit' ray charles

london is a village on the thames whose main industries are music hall and the confidence trick - dan leno

optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation - robert noyce - intel founder

you can't see around corners but you can hear around them - marshall mcluhan

all people dream, but not all equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oi their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers oi the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - t.e. Lawrence

The primary purpose of business is to create and keep customers..

Peter Drucker

Ambient fear - term coined by brian massumi in the fear of eueryday life

Intelligence is the ability to hold two contradictary ideas in your head at the same time.
f scott fitzgerald

'little arts of popularity' james madison