“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
#QOTD #Steinbeck #Quotation #Quote #JohnSteinbeck #Discontent #Distractions
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/quote-of-the-day-5486/
#discontent : to deprive of content
- French: mécontent
- German: die Unzufriedenheit
- Italian: malcontento
- Portuguese: descontente
- Spanish: disgusto
------------
Thank you so much for being a member of our community!
The Window Chrome of Our Discontent
https://pxlnv.com/blog/window-chrome-of-our-discontent/
#HackerNews #WindowChrome #Discontent #UXDesign #TechBlog #UserInterface

In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3
More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now…