
„My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.“
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Quelle: Boy Meets Boy
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Quelle: Boy Meets Boy
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser Austrian artist 1928 - 2000
Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)
— Benjamin N. Cardozo United States federal judge 1870 - 1938
Other writings, The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)
Kontext: Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes. Progress comes per saltum, by successive compromises between extremes, compromises often … between "positivism and idealism". The notion that a jurist can dispense with any consideration as to what the law ought to be arises from the fiction that the law is a complete and closed system, and that judges and jurists are mere automata to record its will or phonographs to pronounce its provisions.
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
2000s, Address at Stanford University (2005)
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Quelle: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
— Theodor W. Adorno, buch Minima Moralia
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
Quelle: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
— James Burke (science historian) British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer 1936
Connections (1979), 10 - Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
Kontext: The question is in what way are the triggers around us likely to operate to cause things to change -- for better or worse. And, is there anything we can learn from the way that happened before, so we can teach ourselves to look for and recognize the signs of change? The trouble is, that's not easy when you have been taught as I was, for example, that things in the past happened in straight-forward lines. I mean, take one oversimple example of what I'm talking about: the idea of putting the past into packaged units -- subjects, like agriculture. The minute you look at this apparently clear-cut view of things, you see the holes. I mean, look at the tractor. Oh sure, it worked in the fields, but is it a part of the history of agriculture or a dozen other things? The steam engine, the electric spark, petroleum development, rubber technology. It's a countrified car. And, the fertilizer that follows; it doesn't follow! That came from as much as anything else from a fellow trying to make artificial diamonds. And here's another old favorite: Eureka! Great Inventors You know, the lonely genius in the garage with a lightbulb that goes ping in his head. Well, if you've seen anything of this series, you'll know what a wrong approach to things that is. None of these guys did anything by themselves; they borrowed from other people's work. And how can you say when a golden age of anything started and stopped? The age of steam certainly wasn't started by James Watt; nor did the fellow whose engine he was trying to repair -- Newcomen, nor did his predecessor Savorey, nor did his predecessor Papert. And Papert was only doing what he was doing because they had trouble draining the mines. You see what I'm trying to say? This makes you think in straight lines. And if today doesn't happen in straight lines -- think of your own experience -- why should the past have? That's part of what this series has tried to show: that the past zig-zagged along -- just like the present does -- with nobody knowing what's coming next. Only we do it more complicatedly, and it's because our lives are that much more complex than theirs were that it's worth bothering about the past. Because if you don't know how you got somewhere, you don't know where you are. And we are at the end of a journey -- the journey from the past.
— Bernard Cornwell British writer 1944
Major General Arthur Wellesley, p. 196
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Triumph (1997)
— Archimedes, buch On the Equilibrium of Planes
Book 1, Proposition 13.
On the Equilibrium of Planes
— Archimedes, buch On the Equilibrium of Planes
Book 1, Proposition 9.
On the Equilibrium of Planes
— Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
Quelle: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 109)
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
— Helen Thomas American author and journalist 1920 - 2013
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
— Hans Reichenbach American philosopher 1891 - 1953
The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928, tr. 1957)
— James Burke (science historian) British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer 1936
Connections (1979), 10 - Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
Kontext: The question is in what way are the triggers around us likely to operate to cause things to change -- for better or worse. And, is there anything we can learn from the way that happened before, so we can teach ourselves to look for and recognize the signs of change? The trouble is, that's not easy when you have been taught as I was, for example, that things in the past happened in straight-forward lines. I mean, take one oversimple example of what I'm talking about: the idea of putting the past into packaged units -- subjects, like agriculture. The minute you look at this apparently clear-cut view of things, you see the holes. I mean, look at the tractor. Oh sure, it worked in the fields, but is it a part of the history of agriculture or a dozen other things? The steam engine, the electric spark, petroleum development, rubber technology. It's a countrified car. And, the fertilizer that follows; it doesn't follow! That came from as much as anything else from a fellow trying to make artificial diamonds. And here's another old favorite: Eureka! Great Inventors You know, the lonely genius in the garage with a lightbulb that goes ping in his head. Well, if you've seen anything of this series, you'll know what a wrong approach to things that is. None of these guys did anything by themselves; they borrowed from other people's work. And how can you say when a golden age of anything started and stopped? The age of steam certainly wasn't started by James Watt; nor did the fellow whose engine he was trying to repair -- Newcomen, nor did his predecessor Savorey, nor did his predecessor Papert. And Papert was only doing what he was doing because they had trouble draining the mines. You see what I'm trying to say? This makes you think in straight lines. And if today doesn't happen in straight lines -- think of your own experience -- why should the past have? That's part of what this series has tried to show: that the past zig-zagged along -- just like the present does -- with nobody knowing what's coming next. Only we do it more complicatedly, and it's because our lives are that much more complex than theirs were that it's worth bothering about the past. Because if you don't know how you got somewhere, you don't know where you are. And we are at the end of a journey -- the journey from the past.
— Gary Johnson American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico 1953
2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
— Chuck Palahniuk, buch Survivor
Quelle: Survivor