Motivations of creators

Walt Disney “We don't make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”Walt Disney Steve Jobs “If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.”Steve Jobs Ayn Rand "I don't intend to …

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Clues to timeless visual symbols

"We are definitively against any fashion of design and any design fashion. We despise the culture of obsolescence, the culture of waste, the cult of the ephemeral. We detest the demand of temporary solutions, the waste of energies and capital for the sake of novelty."Massimo Vignelli, the Vignelli Canon We want our creations to last …

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Low Floors, High Ceilings

Making tools Seymour Papert, the educationist and key thinker in the field of Artificial Intelligence, believed in a principle called "Low Floors, high ceilings". “When discussing technologies to support learning and education, my mentor Seymour Papert often emphasized the importance of “low floors” and “high ceilings.” For a technology to be effective, he said, it …

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