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A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy,

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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