The Kobayashi Maru(e): DEEBEEMONSTER compiled my Superman rant from Twitter the other night. It's a little all over the place. →
Superman is easily the most misunderstood fictional figure in modern popular culture.
Any issues people tend to have with him are a result of lazy writers, not any failings of the central myth behind him. His lack of appeal speaks more to the persistent cynicism of our society than anything…
The Kobayashi Maru(e): DEEBEEMONSTER compiled my Superman rant from Twitter the other night. It's a little all over the place. →
Superman is easily the most misunderstood fictional figure in modern popular culture.
Any issues people tend to have with him are a result of lazy writers, not any failings of the central myth behind him. His lack of appeal speaks more to the persistent cynicism of our society than anything…
– BanskyThe thing i hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.
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– John Sculley on Steve JobsWhat makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist… constantly reducing things to their simplest level. It’s not simplistic. It’s simplified. Steve is a systems designer. He simplifies complexity.
– Douglas Bowman moves from Google to Twitter.Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.
– Jason FriedYou can steal someone’s words, images, or code instantly. And that means it’s tempting to try to build a business by being a copycat. That’s a formula for failure, though. The problem with this sort of copying is it skips understanding — and understanding is how you grow.