Aesthetics Quote by Cory Doctorow Download Open image “It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.” — Cory Doctorow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aesthetics Beauty Decision Decision making Failure Mistake Rational Rational decisions
I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic. — Alexis Ren Copy Share Image
Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake. — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
The beautifully failed choice is made by your right decision forwards the wrong view. — Tivea Copy Share Image
Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art. — Fred Ross Copy Share Image
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Kurt smiled a shy smile. "You're just trying to cheer me up," he said. "Course I am," Andy said. "You deserve to be full… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It’s our version of Christian guilt—it’s impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some… — Peter Vidmar Copy Share Image
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image