07 July 2005

"It’s not clear yet whether PPCall (in all its potential forms) will substitute for pay-per-click adoption or whether many local businesses will adopt and use both (service providers may opt for calls, while local product sellers pursue clicks)." - http://www.searchengineguide.com/sterling/004942.html

"Drawing is a much-unappreciated art form, primarily because the works are so rarely exhibited in the museums that own them. They only make a brief public appearance on those occasions when they fit into a larger show. Otherwise, hidden away folder filed in boxes in dark rooms due to their fragility and sensitivity to light they are poured over only by scholars and connoisseursfor the many insights they afford into the mind and working methods of their creators as well as for their sheer intensity and beauty." - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/feature.html

“Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.”—Jesse James Garrett, 2002
“The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.”—Steven Johnson, 1997
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2003
“[Leonardo Da Vinci] combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2002
"A great man is formed not only by the gifts of nature, but also by the sight of beautiful drawings." - Count de Caylus
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press." - Alexander Solzhenitzyn
Einstein once termed the distinction between past, present and future "a stubborn illusion".

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