“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defence against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings. And the fountainhead of all contempt, all discrimination, is the more or less conscious, uncontrolled and secret exercise of power over the child by the adult, which is tolerated by society (except in the case of murder or [...]
A badly designed product that works is no less unethical than is a beautiful product that doesn’t. The former trivialises the consumer, the latter deceives him. Paul Rand Idea and form are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of thread without the needle or [...]
“Our inner nature is not strong, like instincts in animals. Rather, it is subtle, delicate, and in many ways weak. It is easily ‘drowned out by learning, by cultural expectations, by fear, by disapproval”