A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
For one who can see Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. John Ruskin, Modern Painters Seeing and feeling thinkingunderstandingseeing