“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.” MaySometimesSchoolPowerfulUniversalOriginalsMethodLimitationGrievingCopiesConventionalPreferenceScopeDisappointCorrectnessDerivativesNewnessGreat Schools Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.” PeopleStillsSickMethodIgnorantDeceitRejectsConventionalItemsMedievalImplicationsGrotesqueTainted Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.” LightFireMethodExpectedContactMeritColourConventionalOrdealsDynamite Author:Andre Derain
“The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative.” DifferentSoundAnswersCreativeConditionsMethodAssetsConventionalSheetsRight AnswersAllocationWrong AnswersAsset AllocationSheet Music Author:John Kao
“Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.” YearsStatesTodayLastsSportsLevelsEvolutionApproachTrainingMethodCompetitionCuriosityAthleteDrivenImprovementFiftyElitesInherentConventionalRefinement Author:Steve House
“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.” IfsKnowsMadeImaginationNaturalKnow HowBuildingMaterialsProductsInvolvedElementsMethodArchitectureTraditionalArchitectConventionalComponentsAvant GardeNatural Elements Author:Martin Filler
“Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.” MenMadeDifferentYoungSufferingInfluenceNeededIntellectualTasksMethodErrorsSocialismDevelopingRevolutionaryConventional Author:Che Guevara