“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.” WayTwoEarthThreeFoundSimpleCasesSunFourObjectsProjectsIntellectualShadowLogicFamiliarCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsFourthAnother WayProjectionAnalogiesOntologyThree Dimensions Author:Marcel Duchamp
“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.” WishHistoryMillionsRecordsFourHumourProjectsSlaveryGuiltHistoricalKillingBritishDecadesAmerican Indian Author:Andrew Roberts
“When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.” ThinkingKindMeanRememberNightSleepFourCrazyProjectsFocusedArchitectExhaustedDeadlineDeliriumNo SleepAll Nighters Author:Zaha Hadid
“Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.” PeopleThinkingDoeMadeDoneFilmThreeLove IsMillionsFourFitCostOfficeProjectsModelsDollarsBoxesStudiosMaking MoneyInvestorsTwilightFinancingBox Office Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.” WritingBookReadingFourRight NowProjects Author:Colette Freedman
“There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.” PeopleWayYearsDoneSchoolThreeFeltStudyFourNeededProjectsFour YearsGoing Back To School Author:Chika Anadu
“Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.” ValuesQualityFourDevelopmentCostProjectsExcellentStakesScopeVariables Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
“The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.” YearsLittlesCompanyFourDesignProjectsTrackFour YearsTypicalIbmLarge Companies Author:Bill Gates
“I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.” WantWritingStoriesOrderThreeNextFourProjectsUnfinishedDumpThe Next OneCornered Author:Pawel Pawlikowski
“I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'” FeelsKindSometimesLastsFilmActorsFiveFourProjectsYeahIrelandTrappedJanuary Author:Colm Meaney
“When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.” PeopleWantWritingYearsLongImportantStoriesThreeAsksInterestFourSubjectsProjectsDirectScriptsFour Years Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.” RealReadingRoomsNovelFourProjectsHundredPaidLibraryFiftyDesksIntrusionSpecsFuture Work Author:William Monahan
“I really believe in having projects which in fact can't be carried out, or which are so simple that anyone could work them out. I once made four spots on the map of Holland, without knowing where they were. Then I found out how to get there and went to the place and took a snapshot. Quite stupid. Anybody can do that.” BelieveMadeFactsFoundCan DoSimpleKnowingFourStupidProjectsSpotsMapsHollandSnapshots Author:Jan Dibbets
“Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.” YearsLittlesLongWholeStoriesJobsFourWrittenProjectsYears AgoCollectionsFour YearsUnsure Author:Arthur Bradford