“At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.” BeliefCompassionModelsGratefulMissionsCriticalHumanitarianGenerosityDemonstratingI Am Grateful Author:Sandra Bullock
“The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingKindEndsProblemSpiritualBitsModelsCriticalLibertarianWinnerOutcomesCrushSocialistCommitteesModerationUtopia Author:Jaron Lanier
“It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.” DifferentOrderProcessEconomyClearBuildingSkillsModelsImportanceCriticalFactorsArtisticMathematicalReasonableFacultyRelativeBehaviourSensitivityHypothesisSelectionEquationsExplaining Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.” MayBearsModelsPhotographCriticalDrawingDespiteFaithfulIrrational Book:What Is Cinema? Source: What Is Cinema?
“Some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that's the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.” PeopleNeedsWellsCountryThreeClassAirExampleSeriousModelsProgramCriticalDefenseFlyingGrandparentComponentsMissilesOhioOutdatedSubmarinesModernization Author:Marco Rubio
“You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.” MatterJobsInterestCommonBecomingCitizensSkillsModelsConcernedEducationalCriticalAccessSuburbsCommon GoodEducational SystemPublic InterestVanilla Author:Cornel West
“What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we can do is to respect the will of the people when it comes to majority processes. It is not for us to impose a model, it is not for us to impose answers to some critical questions.” PeopleNeedsHelpingProcessCan DoAnswersProtectModelsMajorityStructureCriticalDynamics Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.” WayVisionEconomicExpressionModelsCriticalMinoritiesTreatmentFreedom Of ExpressionTurkish Author:Tariq Ramadan
“My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).” TryingStatesCoursesMemoriesEnemyWorshipModelsCriticalJohnsonFadedImitatingVilify Author:Noam Chomsky
“At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the EU to destroy Syriza by splitting it. There is a German obstinacy and utter refusal to seriously consider an alternative. The reason isn't even a lack of money, because money swims around the EU coffers endlessly, and they could write off the debt tomorrow if they wanted. But they don't want to do so, because of the election of a left-wing government. They want to punish Syriza in public, to humiliate it so that this model doesn't go any further than Greece.” IfsWantWritingReasonMomentsGovernmentWantedLeftSpeakSituationTomorrowModelsElectionWingsCriticalDebtAlternativesSwimGreeceRefusalLeft WingHumiliateSplittingObstinacy Author:Tariq Ali
“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)” WorldCultureKnowingStageTelevisionModelsMetaphorEntertainmentCriticalScreensPrincipalDiscourse Author:Neil Postman