“I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.” HumansKindHateNumbersEmotionModelsRacismSilentAcceptedLoyaltyCardsShoppingBehaviourPinsDrainedHuman Behaviour Book:Kingdom Come Source: Kingdom Come
“It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.” Can DoModelsComplexesNotionAcceptedAtmosphereRoughApproximationComplex Systems Author:Jamais Cascio
“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.” ThinkingHas BeensReasonLyingEconomyMagicInvolvedIntellectualModelsAdvantageToolsPerformancesMathematicsComplicatedAcceptedSymbolsMathematicalOperationsLogicalEntityFetish Author:Max Horkheimer
“Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.” SocialMovementTheoryBehaviorModelsInvestingAcceptedVulnerableAssetsInvestorsEarningIncompleteDividendsSocial MovementsStock Price Author:Robert J. Shiller
“Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.” ShouldMeanWould BeTodayBeautifulImpossibleInspireModelsIdealsAcceptedBeautiful WomenStarvingInspire OthersBeing Accepted Author:Crystal Renn
“I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.” KnowsWellsBodyMovingKnow HowFrontsModelsCamerasAcceptedCrafts Author:Crystal Renn
“That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...” UseWhiteDecisionModernModelsAcceptedTraitsModern SocietyUnbecoming Author:Bethann Hardison
“Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.” MindHas BeensStatesBodyPoliticalBreakCitizensTaxesModelsTasksPropertyEducationalAcceptedDoctrineReleaseControlledSooner Or LaterPreyInfancyPolitical PowerSupremacyEducational SystemClutchSuperhumanCompulsoryOctopusTotalitarian State Book:God of the Machine Source: God of the Machine
“There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or less integrated. But of course that is with Palestinian Israelis who have, for the most part, accepted certain kinds of cooperative models, and also accept second-class citizenship.” PeopleKindWholeCertainCoursesCommunitySpaceAcceptingClassShareModelsOrdinaryAcceptedPalestinianCitizenshipIntegratedCooperativesNeighbourhoods Author:Judith Butler
“The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.” OrderEffortModelsAcceptedObscurityRenounceComplacent Author:Jean-Paul Sartre