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  1. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  2. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  3. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  4. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  5. There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
    -- Ian McDonald

    #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  6. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  7. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  8. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  9. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  10. We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
    -- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RoryOConnor #Computers #Politics

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  11. Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
    -- James A. Worsham

    #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesAWorsham #Action

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  12. Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
    -- James A. Worsham

    #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesAWorsham #Action

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  13. Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
    -- James A. Worsham

    #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesAWorsham #Action

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  14. Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
    -- James A. Worsham

    #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesAWorsham #Action

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  15. Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
    -- James A. Worsham

    #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesAWorsham #Action

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  16. The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
    -- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  17. The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
    -- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  18. The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
    -- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  19. The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
    -- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  20. The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
    -- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  21. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
    -- Max Planck (1858-1947)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MaxPlanck #Nature #Science

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  22. If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
    -- Walter Lippmann

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterLippmann #Democracy

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  23. Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    -- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Fear #Hope #Religion #TheUnknown

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  24. Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    -- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Fear #Hope #Religion #TheUnknown

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  25. Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    -- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Fear #Hope #Religion #TheUnknown

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  26. Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    -- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Fear #Hope #Religion #TheUnknown

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  27. Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    -- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Fear #Hope #Religion #TheUnknown

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah