“The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.” IdeasShowsCourtFlawsClownJesterVaudevilleCourt Jester Author:John Baldessari
“People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.” PeopleLooksSometimesRememberOblivious Author:David Salle
“What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.” ActorsPositionComicComedianEyebrowsHeadlines Author:David Salle
“For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.” ArtFallBedFeathersArt History Author:David Salle
“To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.” KnowsSometimesSeemsGivenEasyKnow HowInformationJokesStructureNarrativeWorking ItDoseTempo Author:David Salle
“Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.” LooksSuccessfulStyleDefinitionsInevitability Author:David Salle
“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.” KnowsWorldKindHardKidsUsedChoicesIndividualCreativityTechnologyEasierEmpowermentToolsAccessUsed To BeBe KindIndividual Choice Author:Steve Ballmer
“The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.” SometimesBehindsWatchesBrokenMeter Author:Steve Ballmer
“Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.” EyeProgressUsersThrough The Eyes Author:Steve Ballmer
“It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.” HardNew Things Author:Steve Ballmer