Category Archives: Quotes

Tolstoy on Art and Morality

By Keyvan | Published: 16 December 2009
Tolstoy quote: In all his novels after Bel-Ami … Maupassant evidently submitted to the theory which ruled not only in his circle in Paris, but which now rules everywhere among artists: that for a work of art it is not only unnecessary to have any clear conception of what is right and wrong, but that on [...]
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Interaction Design and the Corporate World

By Keyvan | Published: 25 October 2009
I’ve been trying to find texts discussing the role of design and the effects of corporate influence on design (particularly interaction design). There doesn’t appear to be very much written on the topic but I did find the following texts: HCI for the Real World (PDF) This paper by Nicholas Knouf looks at the field of HCI [...]
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Reasons for Studying at University

By Keyvan | Published: 4 August 2009
Quote from Sharon Beder’s This Little Kiddy Went to Market: Annual surveys of students starting university in the US have found that the percentage who say that developing ‘a meaningful philosophy of life’ is very important has been declining — reaching its lowest point (39 per cent) in 2003. This compares with 86 per cent in [...]
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Fromm and the Social Character

By Keyvan | Published: 1 August 2009
Quotes from Erich Fromm's The Fear of Freedom about social character.
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