Have our thoughts become a tangle of unexamined impulses?

Paul Graham on Design.

When you’re forced to be SIMPLE, you’re forced to face the real problem.When you can’t deliver ornament, you to deliver SUBSTANCE.

To have a sense of humor is to be STRONG: to keep one’s sense of humor is to shrug off misfortunes, and to lose one’s sense of humor is to be wounded by them.

“FORM follows FUNCTION,” what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error.

Taste for Makers