When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
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Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull"Donald Norman
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The utopian urge that prompted us in recent decades to write the world's thickest instruction manual, naming it the law of the land, has led us to invent a device that, like detailed rules, also avoids the untidiness of human judgment. It goes by an ancient name, process, but its purpose is new. It once existed to help humans make responsible decisions. Process now has become an end in itself.
Philip K. Howard
Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.
Stephen King
“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Marguerite Duras
As much as I loved the ideas, I excelled at experimental failure, I found new ways to make experiments not work. I would mess up PCRs, add the wrong buffers, northerns, westerns, southerns. I would make them not work in quite ingenious ways, and I realized slowly, over the course of those years, that the secret to being a great scientist is to love the manual labor of it.
Jonah Lehrer
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