Innovation

"When failure is not an option neither is innovation." -Brene Brown

Steve Jobs

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

“Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have." -Steve Jobs (from Wired article 1996)

October

Dress up

“It’s the only time I feel like me, she said, & everyone else just thinks it’s dress up.”

- Brian Andreas

Stones

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I’ll build a castle.

— Fernando Pessoa

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I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

Heal

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

— Leo Tolstoy