Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 32 " It takes a long time to become young. " ―  Pablo Picasso   Triggered by John Maeda's compilation of Picasso quotes  including " One starts to get young at 60, and then it’s too late . " See also:  https://joemckeever.com/wp/it-takes-a-long-time-to-become-young/ In his book by this title, Garson Kanin , a well-known playwright, told how Pablo Picasso walked into a hall where a massive display of his paintings was being exhibited. The artist strode into the gathering with a beautiful young woman on each arm and a smile on his countenance. Someone approached him and after the greeting, said, “Sire, I have a question. There is something about your painting that puzzles me.” The man pointed out that in Picasso’s first paintings, done when he was a young man, the scenes are dark and formal and according to all the standards. But, he said, “The paintings of your latter years are alive and colorful and so youthful! How do you explain that?” Picass...

Quote of the Week 26 “ You can imagine the opposite.” ―  Maurizio Nannucci Triggered by a visit to Lenbachhaus in Munich. Related : Quote of the Week 20 “Everything you can imagine is real.” ―  Pablo Picasso Other themes  of neon texts created by Nannucci : “ All art has been contemporary.” “ Light and beauty are two unquestionable facts.” “ Listen to your eyes.” “ The missing poem ist the poem.” “ Events take time events take space. ” “ In regard to simplicity nothing is defined .” “ Some words different thoughts. ” “I mages are the origin of language .”

Quote of the Week 20 “ Everything you can imagine is real. ” ―  Pablo Picasso Obviously generated by AI

Quote of the Week 15 " Good artists copy. Great artists steal." ― Misattributed to Pablo Picasso Source: Quote Investigator

2023 Quotes CW 1 "W e do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy . " ― The Programmers' Credo   2022 Quotes CW 52 " W e do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy . " ―  Maurice Switzer CW 51 "B e conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept . " ―  Jon Postel  (Postel's Law) CW 50 " What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people . " ―  Josef Weizenbaum CW 49 " A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good . " ― Martin LeBlanc CW 48 " Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations . " ―  Melvin Conway  ( Conway's Law ) CW 47 " Adding manpower to a late softw...