“General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.” DecisionCasesDependsJudgmentMajorsIntuitionSubtleConcretePropositionsPremises Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.” IfsKindSelfOpinionCreativeTypeDependsPeriodsMajorsBasesAbsolutesFoundationSpeciesFolksToneWorking ItTwelveMinorsEvidentPeasantsUnthinkableCreative WorkFolk Music Author:Bela Bartok
“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.” DoeBigsDifferencesDecisionPoorTechnologyGroupsPossibilityDependsOffersMajorsInnovationPressesInvestmentPlentyPublishingCoercionPublicationPrintingSmall GroupsPrinting PressDesktopAdvanced TechnologyCapital InvestmentDesktop Publishing Author:Noam Chomsky
“You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.” WayNeedsTechnologyRecordsDependsMajorsLabels Author:Joe Budden
“The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.” WorldEnergyPlayerMaterialsDependsMajorsAround The WorldCyclingFungi Author:E. O. Wilson