“Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.” IdeasShowsSeemsCertainForceInterestCasesColdFitNewsDetailsMythThirstBangsFilesBumperStickerBumper StickerCold Case Author:Hal Sparks
“We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait (as we have conceived it), in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.” PeopleShouldMayMatterFitDemandDetailsRefuseBeing TruePortraitsHomogeneity Book:Night and Silence, Who is Here? Source: Night and Silence, Who is Here?
“I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantNeedsKnow HowFitDetailsWhere We Came Author:George Smoot
“Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.” WayCharacterTogetherActorsViewsPiecesFitEssentialsSmartLogicScriptsDetailsPoint Of ViewHandleChecksVery SmartCollaboratorsChronology Author:Christopher Nolan
“I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.” BelieveTogetherSpiritGamesLanguageI BelieveDifferencesEffortDesignFitThousandBasesPassionateDetailsIntellectListsChessFeaturesProgrammingBuyingThrownSoftwareTiedDoomedElegantGarbageMisguidedGood DesignUnificationGreat DesignGarbage Cans Author:Ted Nelson
“I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'” WorldFirstsHumansKindStoriesIndividualSocialFictionReaderFitDetailsHuman LifeInternalsAffectedJaneSmiley Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie