Cliff Chiang Quotes
What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.
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Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.
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What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
