If you design something in your head and then spend all your time trying to recreate that vision, you tend to close yourself off from the opportunities that serendipity sometimes throws your way. Chance is often a great designer.
We’ve slowed the pace of change down quite a lot from what it was when we first started. Whereas we once felt the need to reinvent with each new project we now take the time to slowly evolve and develop a line of visual enquiry or approach so that it’s allowed the time to mature.
Jaynes observes that even if we had a complete wiring diagram, if we were aware of every transmitter in the nervous system, understood all of the billions or trillions of synapses, we could still not discern that a specific brain contained a consciousness like our own.
via www.ignant.de