Author: Scott Knell

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The Proper Aim of Art

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.  Oscar Wilde

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Failure Is Not an Option. It’s an Imperative.

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The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is. Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Few analogies to the Law of the Harvest command our imagination more vividly than sports. From the proper and timely preparation to compete, the contest itself, and its completion within a fixed timebox, the organic microcosm of athletic competition condenses the lessons and patterns of […]

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Changegivers

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I have given up all I loved so much: chivalry and pride; and since it pleases God, I accept it all, that He may keep me by Him. Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine, Pos de chantar m’es pres talenz A beauty queen now crowned an angel fairThe world your stage you chose serenityTo turn like Eve your face from fruited treeYou gave away your majesty to bear The racquet and the feather were your handsBroad strokes soft […]

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Communication Theory

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All the light you see is from the past. Alicia Eggert Almost every engineer in my professional orbit in the early 80s sat somewhere beneath the three-acre hangar-turned-cube-farm that was Building Three of Rockwell International’s Space Systems in Seal Beach, California. Rockwell built spacecraft and satellites in those days, and the engineers in Building Three wrote the systems that tracked the more than one million parts that combined to form America’s first space shuttles. And […]