“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.” ArtMadeWantedUsedReadingFoundDealsEffortCenturyPaintingCostPhotographyModelsArgumentCamerasFavors20th CenturyAbstractionDiscomfortObsoleteRealistFees Author:Philip Pearlstein
“Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.” RememberPerfectCenturyModelsPreacherPreaching Author:Charles Henry Fowler
“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.” MenWorldHas BeensAmericaForceNationsRolesEconomyGenerationsMankindCenturyMilitaryModelsAlliesRole ModelsTwentieth CenturyAdversariesSuperpowerHumblingMilitary Force Author:Eric Shinseki
“Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.” KnowsWorldChildrenLeaderCenturyModelsRewardsStartingGuaranteesRetiring21st CenturyClownCreepyPublic HealthTrue LeaderBusiness ModelsMillennialsOutdatedNew BusinessStarters Author:Michele Simon
“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.” UseTodaySchoolCareersTechnologyCenturyStudentsCollegeModelsSmartInstructionFactories21st CenturyUse Of Technology Author:Arne Duncan
“Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.” HalfModernCenturyMovementBuildingModelsUltimateArchitecturePlanningReformCode19th CenturyPublic HealthModern ArchitectureHealth ReformReform Movements Author:Kenneth Frampton
“I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.” WorldTryingCenturyModelsMake SenseTypical20th Century Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.” WorldNeedsMadeStillsPoliticalDealsCenturyPaintingIntellectualModelsObjectivesNeverthelessRejectedAffirmationTransformingDissentNineteenth CenturyTransforming The WorldPainting And Poetry Book:The Shock of the New Source: The Shock of the New
“Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.” CenturySkillsModelsInstrumentsJazzChosenPrimariesPrincipal20th CenturyJazz MusicArmstrongContributors Author:Ellis Marsalis, Jr.
“As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.” IdeasCenturyChangedModelsCapitalismDevelopingAnalysisAbstract19th Century Author:Noam Chomsky