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“Everybody should experience alpine climbing at least once in their lives. The mountains and the awesome power of nature humble you, make you go inward and realize what’s important in life, make you love life and those around you in a more intense way. They also teach you responsibility; not only responsibility of taking care and protecting yourself and yours, but the wild places as well. You realize that the wild places are you and you are the wild places.”

- Uri F. (myself) when I try to explain to my dad why I keep on climbing, even after the hard, scary, type III fun climbs.

Best Buy CEO: iPad Is Cannibalizing Laptop Sales By As Much As A Shocking 50%:

I wonder why…

I pointed out before and after the iPad was launched that the simplicity of the device and the OS was rye future of home-targeted and everyday devices. In my opinion, a lot of people seem to agree.

My iPad replaced my laptop in all but the coding. I don’t carry a laptop anymore, it’s a magical device.

Life’s missing white space | Zen Habits:

By using white space in our lives, we create space, balance, emphasis on what’s important, and a feeling of peace that we cannot achieve with a more cramped life.

I could sit in this chair for hours. The Barcelona chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, captures Mies’ aesthetic agenda of “almost nothing.”

It is a chrome and leather lounge chair in a pure and linear “Miesque” frame. The furniture reflects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s early work, as a pure classicist; a German-born architect, known for his “less is more” phrase and a dream of the purest, spatial perfection.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Barcelona chair and ottoman for the King and Queen of Spain, when they visited his 1929 German Pavilion, in Barcelona. Knoll Studio received the exclusive manufacturing rights by Mies in 1953 as well as trademark protection to the Barcelona collection.

Mies was a supreme Modernist of absolute austerity. Strangely, his rigorous structure feels poetic despite his struggle to express emotions in architecture—perhaps that was the Mies formula twist. We’ll take it.

“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they’re much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.”

- Eric S. Raymond

“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.”

- Samuel Johnson