Bruno Maag quotes

“There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.”
-- Bruno Maag

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“Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.”
-- Bruno Maag

#Wind Quotes #Looks Quotes #Want Quotes

“If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.”
-- Bruno Maag

#Thinking Quotes #Ice Cream Quotes #Vegetables Quotes

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”

“The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.”

“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”

“Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.”

“The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness”

“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”

“One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2014). “The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.74, Delacorte Press

“It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.”