As Shelfari's design guy, I'm half artist and half computer geek. I'm really into User Interface Design and CSS/HTML coding, so my real world book collection is about half art/design books and half programming books. While I read mostly non-fiction books, I'm hoping that this job will inspire me to tackle some of the classics that my beautiful...
more »As Shelfari's design guy, I'm half artist and half computer geek. I'm really into User Interface Design and CSS/HTML coding, so my real world book collection is about half art/design books and half programming books. While I read mostly non-fiction books, I'm hoping that this job will inspire me to tackle some of the classics that my beautiful wife has been raving about for years.
Books aside, I enjoy hiking, all things design, photography, video games and Apple gadgetry.
I also have a soft spot for interesting quotes...
"Outside of a dog man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't."
- Theodore Roethke
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
- Oscar Wilde
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."
- Mark Twain
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
- Albert Einstein
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
- Bill Watterson
"Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need."
- Charles F. Kettering
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