The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

Publisher of great Mexican Architecture books.

Art and terrariums

Probably my favorite mainstream loudspeaker brand

NHT

Marantz

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” - Steve Jobs to John Sculley while trying to hire him from Pepsi.

"You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology." 

"Real artists ship."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad."

"Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink."

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

"It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. So get out there and go for it, but don't be caught waiting. It's great to plan for your future. Just don't live there, because really nothing ever happens in the future. Whatever happens happens now, so live your life where the action is - now." - Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin, 2003

"Insanity in individuals is rare – but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule."

"... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

“Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they’re 75.”

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” 

Is there intelligent life on Earth?