openmoko and the union of emptiness and skillful means
yesterday i was finally able to pick up my neo freerunner. when i opened the packaging, out fell an insert, quoting
Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub
It is the center hole that makes it useful
Shape clay into a vessel
It is the space within that makes it useful
Cut doors and windows for a room
It is the holes which make it useful
Therefore benefit comes from what is there
Usefulness from what is not there.
— lao zi in his dao de jing chapter eleven