WONDER[wuhn-der] v. to feel a desire to konw; to be filled with admiration, amazement or awe. n. the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising. DICTIONARY.COM

Wonder fuels everyday innovation. Wonder drives you. Where? Anywhere, really.Let wonder lead you into a world of your own imagination.

Now, this small cabinet in the corner of my office serves as a constant reminder for me that the world is filled with wonder, and curiosity is something to be cultivated at every opportunity. Indeed, we’re at our best when we’re curious. And the beauty of curiosity is that we’re all naturals. DAVID PESCOVITZ

Wonder is about multiplicity, constant movement and finding many answers, not just one. Wonder brings about unexpected newness. REBECA MENDEZ

Wonder isn’t bread; it’s what it can be.

WONDER(ER)S OF THE WORLD: leonardo da vinci, albert einstein, shun-

ryu suzuki, thomas edison, martin luther king, harry houdini, you.

WUNDERKAMMERCabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammer or wonder-

rooms) were collections of types of objects we now regard as quite sep-arate, but whose boundaries were in the Renaissance yet to be defined.

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INTERACTIONI’m optimistic that in the coming few years, the DIY movement will reach not only widespread awareness but widespread participation. I’m opti-mistic that smart companies, instead of criminalizing hackers, will en-courage these user-innovators and solicit their feedback to design better products. DAVID PESCOVITZ

interaction inspires wonder.Finding ways to fullfil curiosity isn’t hard because information is easily accessible to anyone thanks to community driven websites on the the internet, such as wikipedia.org, ehow.com and webmd.com. Nowadays knowledge is not limited to the very few.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”

SHUNRYU SUZUKI-ROSHI

“Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?” My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa con-

strictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things ex-plained. The grown-ups’ response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of

boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geog-raphy, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might

have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to

them. THE LITTLE PRINCE

It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgements and prejudices. Beginner’s mind is just

present to explore and observe and see “things as-it-is.” ABBESS ZENKEI BLANCHE HARTMAN

The perfect state of creative bliss is having the power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. TIBOR KALMAN

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INNOVATIONThe first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of re-sourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. MAKEZINE.COM

It is the coming to life of imagination.

Do-it-yourself is everywhere. Around the world, people are making things themselves in order to save money, to customize goods to suit

their exact needs and interests, and to feel less dependent on the corpo-rations that manufacture and distribute most of the products and media

we consume. On top of these practical and political motivations is the pleasure that comes from developing an idea, making it physically real,

and sharing it with other people. ELLEN LUPTON

Most of all though, I’m heartened by the unbridled curiosity fueling today’s passionate DIY movement. A growing number of

ingenious individuals are hacking Priuses to boost the gas mileage, installing Linux on iPods to record high-quality audio, and building

backyard weather balloons. On one hand, these makers are dissatisfied with off-the-shelf products. At a deeper level though, they’re driven by a daring inquisitiveness about

what lies “under the hood” of today’s technology and how they can better what they buy, or build it from scratch. DAVID PESCOVITZ

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