“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.” ThinkingKnowsWayMeanImportantEndsHappensReadingNovelMiddleBuiltAnnaPredictability Author:Scarlett Thomas
“I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.” ImportantDifferentPlayLightDealsRolesBuiltBlueImportant ThingsColourInteraction Author:Bridget Riley
“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.” KnowsImportantMatterFactsSoundChanceMy OwnForeverWonderfulElementsBuiltPerformancesImportant ThingsNuanceDrawbacksLive Performance Author:Aaron Copland
“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.” ImportantHumanityCultureDevelopmentInternetExerciseSpeechConceptsBuiltPressesInventionDedicatedFree SpeechPrintingPrinting PressQuintessentialGutenberg Author:L. Neil Smith
“It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.” TryingChildrenImportantMatterChristianBeliefMistakeMoralAtheismTrainingBuiltBasesFoundationPositive AtheismMoral Education Author:Margaret E. Knight