And that’s why we don’t like birds.
— Vera
There is no such thing as research in the absence of any paradigm.
— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
He is not just an explorer or a measurer.
— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Some people tell me this story is a fantasy. And I ask them: If it is, then what did I do during my ten days at sea?
— Gabriel García Márquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
I’ll be good.
— Kid Cudi, MGMT, Ratatat, “Pursuit of Happiness”
For somebody on whom to throw away superfluous interest, and even tenderness.
— Thomas Hardy, The Distracted Preacher
The level of detail at which we are now able to recognize morphological complexities is such that morphology can be said to display a form that is quasi-discrete. Behavior, on the other hand (with perhaps exceptions for the most extreme types), may well display a form that our present investigative techniques are only able to recognize as quasi-continuous. The nature of the relationship between these two may therefore be considered less an algebraic equation as above and more as a topological mapping of a relatively complicated type where there is a considerable lack of one-to-one correspondence between the sets.
— Charles Oxnard, Uniqueness and Diversity in Human Evolution
I am happy when I do something I like.
I am happy when I’m with someone I like.
I am happy because I like myself.
— Terry Berger, I Have Feelings
About getting to know her without understanding what she is.
— James Lovelock, Gaia
I will buy you a new car.
— Everclear, “I Will Buy You A New Life”
The monkey in the wrench.
— John McClane, Die Hard
They are much greater than anything I will say about them.
— P. Adams Sitney
If I could be anything these days I would be a hip hop artist.
— Lucia Allais
I’m always a fan of straight copying, and then you can interpret. It’s always going to have your voice no matter what.
— Sarah Gephart
Searching up to the sky and looking beneath the ground.
— Matisyahu, “King Without A Crown”
Is it something you missed?
— The xx, “Chained”
I’m a good worker. I worked cable tool rigs, built railroad.
— Henry, There Will Be Blood
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— Mark Wigley, “Story-Time”
The introduction of the problem of meaning within the process of design in such a systematic and conscious way. Such an approach might be seen as a “neo-functionalism.”
— Mario Grandelsonas, “Neo-Functionalism”
The return to language is a proof of failure.
— Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labrynth