
1988 interview with Animage, Animage, vol. 125, November 1988. Retrieved June 8, 2007.
(3 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: I want to build vast machines of light and darkness, intricate mechanisms within mechanisms, a progression of gears and cogs and pistons each working to its own end as well as that of the Greater Device. That's what I see in my head. But, too often, I sense that many readers want nothing more complex or challenging than wind-up toys. It's dispiriting.
1988 interview with Animage, Animage, vol. 125, November 1988. Retrieved June 8, 2007.
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), p. vii; as cited in: Joseph E. Kasser (2010) " Seven systems engineering myths and the corresponding realities http://www.synergio.nl/media/59286/7_myths_of_se.pdf"
“There is nothing I want more than to return to Russia.”
Interview with Forbes (22 March 2013)
“Toy balloon
once kidnapped by the wind —
come home, and I will say:
There are no children here.”
"Still Life with a Balloon"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Calling Out to Yeti (1957)
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.
Misattributed
“See those trees
Bend in the wind
I feel they've got a lot more sense than me
You see I try to resist…”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
Context: I actually enjoy complexity that's empowering. If it challenges me, the complexity is very pleasant. But sometimes I must deal with complexity that's disempowering. The effort I invest to understand that complexity is tedious work. It doesn't add anything to my abilities.