“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?” WorldYearsHumansDifferentStatesNamesUnitedUnited StatesBloodNew YorkBuildingFitLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVolumeDifferent PeoplesConsumedPizzaNew York TimesOntology Author:John Allen Paulos
“I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingBigsIssuesBuildingFitPracticalsStreamsInteriorsNavigate Author:Paul Goldberger
“New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time” ShouldBuildingFitConcernOur TimeSurroundings Book:The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm
“With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.” WayMadeTogetherFilmWatchesAudienceBuildingFitHorrorScarySuspenseScareExpectingEditsBuilding UpLeast Expecting Author:Jeremy Irvine
“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.” WholeDreamCitiesVisionCasesDesignBuildingHugeFitTownsStructureMassiveSchemesUtopianVersaillesFourierParallelogram Author:Christine Jennings
“For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.” TryingSeemsTogetherBuildingFitDecadesBlockCooksLabsBuilding Blocks Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.” KindSportsSupportFocusTeachingWorstBuildingFitSingingAthleteMaskRelaxation Author:Gary Catona
“The training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you are going to struggle to keep your voice at first-run perfectness. All that work I did - the pull-ups and pushups - helped keep my body fit. Hamlet, the show, is a cardiovascular workout of about three hours, never mind the mental, soul-crushing element of it.” MindHoursStruggleBuildingFitTrainingBlockWorkout Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.” YearsWellsMadeGrowthBuildingHugeFitEasierToolsContactMade ItMake SenseSiteImportsViral Author:Mark Zuckerberg