Rem Koolhaas // "I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual."
Stanley Kubrick // "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death...our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
Ray Bradbury // “If you want to write, if you want to create…you must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head…I wish you a wrestling match with your creative muse that will last you a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories…may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
Robert Goddard // "There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars, both literally and figuratively, is the work of generations. But no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning."
Sophia Loren // "I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself."
Dieter Rams // "Good design is as little design as possible. Less but better—because it concentrates on the essential aspects...Back to purity, back to simplicity."
Sylvie Guillem // "But it's nice to imagine, nice to be crazy. If you reach a limit, it's not with your body but your mind."
J.D. Salinger // "I mean, they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more."
TV glasses by Hugo Gernsback (1963) // "Not only is science fiction an idea of tremendous import, but it is to be an important factor in making the world a better place to live in, through educating the public to the possibilities of science and the influence of science on life which...are not appreciated by the man on the street."
Veruschka von Lehndorff // "...we are running out of ideas because everybody is so involved with running around and making a lot of money, more than they need...They should just stop and live."
Mark Twain // "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience."
Serge Gainsbourg // Jane Birkin