“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.” WritingFirstsHomeUsedAdventureComputerAtomsBubblesTeensPrimitiveAcorns Author:Graham Nelson
“We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.” KnowsFirstsFormConditionsChangedInternalsBiologyPrimitiveOrganismsObligedSimulate Author:Wilhelm Ostwald
“One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.” IfsFirstsMeanHumorFunnyFieldsHumorousMachinesSightIsraelDestroyedPrimitivePullingShockedTractors Author:Golda Meir
“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.” ThinkingFirstsFeelingsLostWishReligiousExistenceClearYouthChainsParadisePrimitiveThinking God Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.” FirstsWellsChildrenStatesSpiritualCommunityCaringWell BeingOrganizedPrimitiveProvidingEden Book:Table-talk Source: Table-talk