A list of misc. quotables

Just a list of interesting quotes that I stumbled across in the last few days. I'm posting them here, so I can find & use them later. :)

"Emotion is the experience in User Experience" - Trevor Van Gorp

"Brands are built on what people are saying about you, not what you’re saying about yourself.” - Guy Kawasaki

"It's better to have a rough answer to a right question, then a detail answer to a wrong question" - Lord Kelvin

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet" - William Gibson

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!” - Joel Arthur Barker

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” - Pablo Picasso

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” – Albert Einstein

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” - Albert Szent-Gyorgyl

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.” - W. Somerset Maugham

"The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." - unknown

Three Four Quotes

• "You can create IT faster than you can create mental acceptance of it." - Greg Lindsay, Terracom
  
  
  
• "Content is the next killer app ... because it's the content that will keep us engaged, and coming back for more. It's the special sauce that can take a consumer and make them an active participant. " - David Armano, Logic+Emotion
  
  
• "They are getting more entertainment value out of being amateur producers of this stuff than they would purely as consumers." - Douglas Ruskoff
  
  
• From Beyond the Blue Ocean, Jeffer Phillips (DigitALL, Fall 07)
  
  

Filed Under - Quotable

"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."

- Kathleen Norris

Best thought of the week ...

From Seth Godin:

"99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn't coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you've thought of."

How true! Innovative thinking really isn't hard. It happens all the time in libraries - in staff meetings, brainstorming sessions, and even around the watercooler or in restrooms. The great ideas are there ... it's just the implmentation or "how to" part that seems to constantly hang us up.

Great quotes & other good reads ...

The latest copy of AL arrived in my mailbox today and I had the opportunity to practically read it cover-to-cover this morning while waiting for my 5 year-old to return from her kindergarten readiness test. The issue, newly designed, is just as sparkly and sharp inside as it is on the outside and in thumbing through the pages I was please to read several great articles.

Meredith Farkas' Balancing in the Online Life was excellent and I'll look forward to reading more of her contributions via a new column in the future. Also of note was Jenny Levine's column on gaming, Getting your Game On. She shares some great stats on players which indicate that that I fit the profile of a gamer more than my 15 year-old skateboard-fanatic neighbor. There's also an offering on 20 Tips to Inspire Innovation from Steve Abram -- this one needs a whole post in itself -- my favorite of which is #10, Have vision and dream big : "When the vision doesn't have enough stretch in it, things seem mediocre." How True.

And last but not least, I discovered a great quote from Miriam Pollack in an article titled In the Company of Friends: Learning through dialogue ...

"I think the key to learning is not the format, the medium, nor the message; it is the quality of the dialogue among peers that really matters."

I'll definitely be using this one sometime soon. :)