mip'nei tikkun ha-olam --

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body.

- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813)

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein

"What surprises you most?"

"Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, then he dies having never really lived."

- Dalai Lama

why? why not.

its never done. it can always be better.

less is more.

because.

harder, better, faster, stronger

good, fast, cheap.

appropriate. accessable.

efficient. minimalist. beautiful.

less doing more.