read everything
Nov. 15th, 2010 02:08 am"All the great designers are avid readers."
Chris Crawford
Virtools Swap-Meet interview
c. 1999
"It has taken me a long time to realize that I am talking not to ideally objective thinkers, but to Pleistocene hunter-gatherers trying their hardest to act like civilized people -- and only occasionally succeeding."
Chris Crawford
"Sixty"
6 November 2010
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Part One, Chapter One
October 1936
Ironically, Mr. Carnegie's book is exactly the sort of thing Mr. Crawford would never bother reading since he places no value on societal norms.