“I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.” WellsImportantBookDoneFilmSpiritReaderOriginalsImportant ThingsAdoreAdaptationLenientFilm Adaptations Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.” ThinkingWorldImportantHardBigsFilmDiesNextStarsSpaceFantasyGenerationsFansGrewGrew UpOriginalsNineCinemaSci FiNext GenerationDeep Space Author:Olivia Thirlby
“Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.” NeedsWritingHumansMayMeanImportantAbleProcessHuman BeingsComputerProgramBasesOriginalsCodeAgain And AgainRequirementsBugsOngoingFunctionality Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.” IfsKnowsImportantHardPlayChoicesChanceOriginalsArbitrary Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007 Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.” WorldImportantWatchesSeaConceptsDeterminationOrganizationOriginalsAimPopulationResistanceCorporationsDistractionAttributesConservationMarineColonyCaribbeanTurtlesSea Turtle Author:Archie Carr
“I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.” IfsWayImportantFeelingsEmotionOriginalsImportant ThingsDetailsTranslationsCapturedPublication Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'” MenHumansImportantIdeasCharacterNamesLanguageGivenOriginalsObscure Author:Laura Riding
“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.” WorldImportantWarStatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesCenturyParticularCapitalismExcitingClaimsRelationOriginalsStartingInternationalChinaDebateChineseOur TimeSurprising21st CenturyEmergingPolitical SystemsStarting Point Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.” ImportantIdeasSeemsAbilityMaterialsIntegrityDemandOriginalsImportant ThingsIntuitionGuidesCompromiseRealizationGapsConceptionVitalitySculptorsOriginal IdeasCarving Author:Barbara Hepworth
“In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.” IfsKnowsFirstsLooksImportantHappensEarthFormCoursesShareUniversalDiedOriginalsSpeciesLeavingChainsAssumptionPairsAncestorTraitsOrganismsExtinctionDescendantsBacteriaLineageLiving OrganismsSpecies Extinction Author:David M. Raup