>> I love design. I’m not sure I would love design conferences. But I crave this one. And it looks like some people are gravely in need of it.

>> It’s not that I dislike Apple - I like things that are well-designed, intuitive, compact - it’s that I dislike the cult of the Jesus Phone.  No brand should command such blind unflinching loyalty - can you imagine if there were as many pro-Puma or pro-Converse blogs as there are pro-Apple blogs? - and no CEO should command the kind of messianic following that the turtleneck-stuffed-with-ego Steve Jobs does.  Particularly when the facts are as they are.

>> Now this is just brilliant stuff here: In 1921, Agnes Macphail became the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. Not all of her colleagues welcomed her. One tried to embarrass her by asking, “Don’t you wish you were a man?” “No,” Macphail replied. “Don’t you?”