Edwin Schlossberg famous quotes

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
-- Edwin Schlossberg

#Writing #Thinking #Skills

True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.
-- Edwin Schlossberg

#Communication #Icons #Design

It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.
-- Edwin Schlossberg

#Design #Roles #Welcome

The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
-- Edwin Schlossberg

#Ideas #Design #Training

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
-- Edwin Schlossberg

#Differences #Texture #Indifference

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.