"What it means to meet somebody who cares for books! I mean books worth reading, not like that garbage in the Club libraries. I do hope you’ll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who’s heard that books exist, I’m afraid I go off like a bottle of warm beer."

From Burmese Days by George Orwell (via abookandatardis)

oliphillips:

‘Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking’

- Milton Glaser

I don’t understand all the flak that this quote is getting. I don’t agree that it encourages a complete dissociation from technology, or that it implies that computer graphic designers are not real designers (whatever that means.)

To me it’s pretty simple: design is and has always been, a craft. Victorian-style furniture was made by the calloused hands of carpenters, comic books were hand-drawn and inked (that applies until now)…even typography was a laborious practice, what with the manual arrangement of individual punches that defined letterpress printing.

In other words, what Milton Glaser is trying to say is that computers are not detrimental to creating. They serve to make life easier for designers, yes, but without them, beautiful art will still continue be made and people will find ways to create what their imaginations move them to, no matter how difficult.

Yes, you can make a meal with the handy tool that is the microwave. Just don’t forget where 3-minute TV dinners were born out of.

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."

Goethe

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch (via light-essence)

"The only way you can hurt me is if I let you."

So go ahead and try.