Sunday, January 11, 2015
While the “corporate style” was expanding into all areas, so was the company physically.
— Susan Black, The First Fifty Years 1926-1976
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Because the corporate concept admits of contradiction and difference while still remaining operative in the world, it is not only a cultural problem but also potentially the very solution to that problem.
— John Harwood, “The Corporation As Concept,” Art in America
Friday, January 9, 2015
The autonomous artwork, ultimately a religious ideal, is a beautiful modern contrivance. Architecture is perhaps best thought of as pre-modern art.
— Chris Wood, “Why Autonomy,” Perspecta 32: Mining Autonomy
Thursday, January 8, 2015
The language of vision, like any other language, can be lied in. As many frauds have been perpetrated in Bodoni as by Barnum.
— James Real, “Image or Façade?,” in Reyner Banham, The Aspen Papers: Twenty Years of Design Theory from the International Design Conference in Aspen
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
The fact I can see it as an excuse for the next few weeks of a sudden it was the best of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the year and the first half of the year and the first half of the day I have a great way of the year of high quality of life and the other hand is the only thing that would have to go back and the other hand is the only thing that would have to go back and the first half of the day I have a great way of the year of high quality of life and then you have a good time with the first half of the year of high quality and I don’t think that I can see.
— Thomas’ iPhone’s middle QuickType button
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
I love corporate Tuesdays.
— David White in MOMA
Monday, January 5, 2015
Cattle like curves. They don’t moo at curves.
— Temple Grandin, Temple Grandin
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people.
— Mao Tsetung, Five Articles By Chairman Mao Tsetung
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Hold onto your butts.
— Ray Arnold, Jurassic Park
Friday, January 2, 2015
The other coat!
— Over eager New Theatre audience member
Thursday, January 1, 2015
I need some wooden hangers.
— Jazzy Dee, Top Five
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
You don’t have to pop for directions!
— Kathleen, *You don’t have to pay for decorations!*
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
For once having discovered that he was recognized as a crab, he made desperate efforts to escape.
— Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives
Monday, December 29, 2014
Maybe I’m a narcoleptic but just with good timing.
— Lily
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Margo, convinced that the sunshine would do for her acne what all the pills and potions of the medical profession had so far failed to do, sun-bathed with strenuous earnestness in the olive groves and in consequence got herself badly burnt.
— Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Reached by phone, a brand manager found nothing problematic about the omission. “So she’s blind and deaf — her personal shortcomings are not related to the spirit of our brand,” said the woman, who gave only her surname, Jiang. “These products help you love and protect your eyes. Why would that be offensive?”
— Dan Levin, “Adidos and Hotwind? In China, Brands Adopt Names to Project Foreign Flair,” The New York Times
Friday, December 26, 2014
There is no solution because there is nothing to solve.
— E. O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence
Thursday, December 25, 2014
The Past, Present and Future walked into a bar… It was tense.
— Lily’s shirt
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
I’m sayin’ all this stuff and I don’t hear clack clack clack.
— Lily
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Yet the theory of inclusive fitness was not just wrong, but fundamentally wrong.
— E. O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence