There’s been a relatively unfortunate trend recently of idolizing the ridiculously obsessed. Obsessives, in some circles, equate automatically to quality and workmanship.
And while that’s true in some cases, it assumes that old mistake that incredible artists must also be incredibly unbalanced.
The quote is just another step in a series of steps of taking obsessions to extremes.
There’s a great little blog called Minimal Mac that has a wealth of nifty little tricks for computing happiness.
I’m not mentioning it because of one of these tricks. I’m mentioning it because just now it posted the following quote:
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
That’s Martin Luther King, Jr.
Really? I mean, really?
I don’t know. Maybe MM was just sharing this b/c it’s a nice quote, but given the frequent posts it has regarding “what we believe in” and “not what we believe in” I’m left feeling as though it’s meant to be applied to their views on simple computing interfaces.
Thus: Really? Equating a matter of civil rights to decluttered desktops?
