Taste for Makers
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2002
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Good design has principles you can name: simplicity, timelessness, solves the right problem, suggestive rather than complete. Bad design tries to look impressive. Good designers cultivate taste through years of looking. Taste isn't subjective — it converges across cultures and centuries.
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February 2002 "...Copernicus' aesthetic objections to [equants] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system...." - Thomas Kuhn, _The Copernican Revolution_ "All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically in his insistence that an airplane that…
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