Circuses are awesome... for visual inspiration, their carefully orchestrated chaos, and “not showing the blood” that goes into any good product.
(For more on circuses, design and awesome, please see Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter)
Quotes from the documentary:
You sell your expertise, you have a limited repertoire. You sell your ignorance, it’s an unlimited repertoire. He was selling his ignorance and his desire to learn about a subject, and the journey of him not knowing to knowing was his work.
Many people are happy manipulating objects. He was never truly happy unless he was manipulating an idea.
I don’t stop to think whether I can; I just go as far as I can.
And glasses!
