Quoteations

You can date someone in the summertime when it’s too hot to have rules. This person might not make sense in February when you’re wearing thick coats and eating too much, but they’ll fit in nicely at a Fourth of July barbecue or a pool party. Your bodies will stick together in the heat and sometimes having sex will be the grossest activity you can think of, but you’ll do it anyway. You’ll understand what it means to be in a “summer mood”, how you can spend three months taking a break from your real life to make out, wear provocative clothing and drink too many margaritas. Your skin will be sun kissed, sand will stick between your toes and you’ll feel kinda sexy. When you start wearing cardigans and throwing yourself back into your work, your summer lover will fade away and the romance will live on as some kind of lost weekend at the beach. That’s okay though. —Ryan O’Connell, Thought Catalog

You can date someone in the summertime when it’s too hot to have rules. This person might not make sense in February when you’re wearing thick coats and eating too much, but they’ll fit in nicely at a Fourth of July barbecue or a pool party. Your bodies will stick together in the heat and sometimes having sex will be the grossest activity you can think of, but you’ll do it anyway. You’ll understand what it means to be in a “summer mood”, how you can spend three months taking a break from your real life to make out, wear provocative clothing and drink too many margaritas. Your skin will be sun kissed, sand will stick between your toes and you’ll feel kinda sexy. When you start wearing cardigans and throwing yourself back into your work, your summer lover will fade away and the romance will live on as some kind of lost weekend at the beach. That’s okay though.

—Ryan O’Connell, Thought Catalog

We’re building the social sandboxes people play in, and we should own up to the responsibility of making them awesome places to do meaningful things.  “Positivity is something that has to be designed into a product from the beginning,” Karp said.  “It’s just a matter of old design choices that have to be reconsidered.” —W+K Portland, Communities of Yes

We’re building the social sandboxes people play in, and we should own up to the responsibility of making them awesome places to do meaningful things.  “Positivity is something that has to be designed into a product from the beginning,” Karp said.  “It’s just a matter of old design choices that have to be reconsidered.”

—W+K Portland, Communities of Yes


We (40+) were perhaps the last generation to fear our father —Alain de Botton, Twitter

We (40+) were perhaps the last generation to fear our father

—Alain de Botton, Twitter

 Creatives have become inventors. —Kevin Lee, D&AD Article

 Creatives have become inventors.

—Kevin Lee, D&AD Article

To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirrelled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interleave, like those line of television cable and fresh water and steam heat and whatever else which cohabit in the same intestinal holes that pavement-demolishing workmen periodically wrench open to the daylight and to our passing, disturbed glances. We only pretend to live on something as orderly as a grid. — Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City

To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirrelled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interleave, like those line of television cable and fresh water and steam heat and whatever else which cohabit in the same intestinal holes that pavement-demolishing workmen periodically wrench open to the daylight and to our passing, disturbed glances. We only pretend to live on something as orderly as a grid.

— Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City