> I don’t mean to give you a Zen koan, but the work I did is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don’t know. That’s why I can’t tell you, I don’t know what I’m doing. And it’s the not knowing that makes it interesting.
– [Philip Glass](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/philip-glass-and-beck-discuss-collaborating-on-rework.html?_r=2&)
[Heard this one in a presentation today](http://blog.kiwicreative.net/2011/01/25/how-many-art-directors-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb/):
> Q: How many product designers does it take to change a light bulb?
> A: Does it have to be a light bulb?
Heh.
…had its birth announcement today:
Glad to finally share more information about our design!
This comment has stuck in my head for years…and seems to become truer each day:
> With Google branching into so many fields, one day you’ll [drive your Google](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car) to [the Google](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17VHr6rsPAw) to buy some Google to eat while you [watch Google](http://www.youtube.com) on [your Google](http://www.google.com/tv/). – [TheGatekeeper on Slashdot, 2004](http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=126072&cid=10555532)
Guess we’ve got to get cracking on that edible Google.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Russell Davies collected several good examples of [how creative work is often not complicated, just hard](http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2013/01/its-not-complicated-its-just-hard.html).
More evidence [piles up](http://bob.ryskamp.org/brain/?p=5060)…
An [amazing version](http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/syndicate.php?name=phc/2012/11/10/phc_20121110_128&starttime=00:34:44.0&endtime=00:37:25.0) of the most influential song in my life:
The Muppets also did it pretty well!
I’ve thought about [this sermon](http://vimeo.com/50045277) a lot over the past month. During stressful times it’s good to remember that the real goal is not success in work or even personal life, but rather building character to be more loving, more honest, more holy. Not your circumstances but how you grow in them to those ends.
> When we see a brand new baby, part of what we love about that baby is that little baby when it first arrives in this world is just innocent. How long does that baby’s innocence last? Twenty years? Twenty minutes? Innocence is the absence of sin, but it’s not yet the presence of character. Character is that pattern, those habitual patterns of…How do I think? What do I want? What will I choose?…That’s what life is about. – [John Ortberg](http://vimeo.com/50045277)