产品随想 | 周刊 第117期：He saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
He disliked biography attempts. “I regard my scientific papers as my essential biography,’’ Land said. “I pour my whole life into the scientific project I’m investigating. I leave behind the things I’ve done in the past to do the work in the present.’’
“The purpose of inventing instant photography was essentially aesthetic,’’ Land said in 1947, announcing the process’s invention.
“We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.”
— Edwin Land, Statement to Polaroid Corporation employees (25 June 1958)The worldview he was describing perfectly echoed Land’s: “Market research is what you do when your product isn’t any good.” And his sense of innovation: “Every significant invention,” Land once said, “must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.” Thirty years later, when a reporter asked Jobs how much market research Apple had done before introducing the iPad, he responded, “None. It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they want.”
Jobs saw, and Jobs understood: “Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.”
"Our young people, for the most part -- unless they are geniuses -- after a very short time in college give up any hope of being individually great. They plan, instead, to be good. They plan to be effective. They plan to do their job. They plan to take their healthy place in the community. We might say that today it takes a genius to come out great; and a great man, a merely great man, cannot survive. It has become our habit, therefore, to think that the age of greatness has passed, that the age of the great man is gone; that this is the day of group research; that this is the day of community progress. Yet the very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength." -- MIT, 22 May 1957.
"All of our confidence has to come from making things... Let us not make more of something there is too much of. Let us find out what is desperately needed, although people may not know it. Let us find out what will beautify the world, although people may not know it. Then let's learn and learn and teach ourselves, and support each other in doing that until we lose ourselves in those tasks." -- 5 February 1960.
"The only thing that is keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only way to protect our brilliance is patents." -- 27 April 1976.
" There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess." -- 26 April 1977.
追求极致"The only thing that matters is the bottom line?' What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line's in heaven. The real business of business is building things." -- 26 April 1977.
"You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components." -- 1978.
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
— Ansel Adams, “A Personal Credo” (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944),"A new kind of relationship between people in groups is brought into being...when the members of a group are photographing and being photographed and sharing the photographs," he wrote in 1974. "It turns out that buried within us...there is latent interest in each other; there is tenderness, curiosity, excitement, affection, companionability and humor.... [W]e have a yen for and a primordial competence for a quiet good-humored delight in each other: We have a prehistoric tribal competence...in being partners in the lonely exploration of a once-empty planet."
三宅一生：“我想做的不是只给有钱人穿的衣服。我做的是牛仔裤和T恤之类的东西，很多人都很熟悉，易于清洗，易于使用。”
“我最感兴趣的是人，以及人的形态，”三宅一生在2014年告诉时报。“服装是最贴近所有人的东西。”
"The ideal business is composed of managers and dreamers, and it is the responsibility of the former to protect the latter."
Sidney Bazett House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bazett_House?useskin=vector
世界真的非常神奇
Frank Lloyd Wright设计的房子，启发了Joseph Eichler，然后Joseph Eichler大批量开发了加州住宅，这启发了乔布斯！！！
所以，概括来说，就是：建筑师改变世界？“I’ve lived somewhat reactively,” Neutra wrote in his memoir, “in that my career was suggested by others (my dad), and I followed that lead.” Accordingly, the son’s design approach toed the family line. Yet he balked at the suggestion that there might be an overarching Neutra dogma of style or manner. “We’re not about formalism,” he argued in 2001. “We’re about humanism.”
“That’s what architecture is about,” Neutra said, well into his mid-70s and still, by his own account, clocking 16-hour work days. “You go out to the edge, and you try to push the envelope and do something. There are always risks involved.”
挑战极限Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz?useskin=vector
世俗眼中的天才，只是因为足够勤奋、阅读了足够多的知识，并融会贯通，才让别人认为他是个天才而已“今天，每一个活着的人的身后，都立着30个鬼魂—30:1，正是死去的人和活人的比例。开天辟地以来，在地球上活过的人大约总共一兆。”
哇，这个说法，突然变得清晰可感知起来陀思妥耶夫斯基的话：“首先人应该善良，其次应该诚实，但是最重要的，是不要相互遗忘。”
如果你到斯里兰卡，也许有机会去瞻仰克拉克的墓碑，上面写着：“他从未长大，但他从未停止成长。”
“He never grew up, but he never stop growing.”“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning… The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment.” ——Stanley Kubrick
“Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism — and their assumption of immortality.”
“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But, if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s elan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
—— Stanley KubrickArthur somehow manages to capture the hopeless but admirable human desire to know things that can really never be known. … As an artist, his ability to impart poignancy to a dying ocean or an intelligent vapor is unique. He has the kind of mind of which the world can never have enough, an array of imagination, intelligence, knowledge, and a quirkish curiosity which often uncovers more than the first three qualities.
——Stanley Kubrick