“The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.” RealityWindMaterialsModelsMeaninglessAirplaneGlueRaw MaterialsAdrift Book:Sometimes a Great Notion Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.” PeopleMindHumansIdeasHelpingUseAgeImaginationMemoriesForgetHistoryMaterialsCircumstancesJudgmentModelsReflectionLettersFacultyArtificialPrincipalSavagesIncapableHerdsRoman EmpireCivilisedLethargic Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.” LooksPlayBeautifulChallengesAttentionQualityBuildingMaterialsIntegrityApproachModelsSmartConceptsResponseGuitarDetailsExpertsPackagesAlexSelectedAcousticsStunningCraftsmanshipAttention To Detail Author:Alex Lifeson
“The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers obviously can exclude people, but the actual content -the values, the ideas- can be shared with no loss of value for the consumer. It is also extremely inexpensive and easy to share material. Sharing is built into the culture and practices of the Web and has made it difficult for the subscription model to be effective.” PeopleMadeIdeasValuesCultureStrongEasyDifficultLossPracticeShareMediaMaterialsInternetModelsBuiltMade ItConsumersAttributesProvidersPublic GoodInexpensiveSubscriptionService Providers Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.” IfsWantEnoughMightValuesReadingMovementMaterialsEasierCostPaperModelsScientistAccessOnlineInfrastructureClicksBusiness Models Author:John Wilbanks
“I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it.” ThinkingYearsLooksHas BeensCareGivenMaterialsModelsTake CareMagazinesRaw Materials Author:Isabel Allende
“And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So, in identifying a project like Dovekeepers, looking at something like Extant and looking at Under the Dome, it was about falling in love with a piece of material, getting excited by the creative direction, hearing a vision, and getting excited about the potential for those projects and building the business model around it. And they're not all modeled the same way. Every one is different.” WayDifferentFallVisionCreativePiecesAirBuildingMaterialsProjectsModelsOriginalsFalling In LoveExcitedHearingProgrammingIdentifyingBusiness ModelsDomes Author:Nina Tassler
“In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a new world. This view will enable individuals, companies and even nations to move from collapse to positive change, and bring together the spiritual and the material, giving birth to a new future.” WorldGivingTogetherSpiritualMovingIndividualNationsViewsCompanyMaterialsBirthModelsNew WorldCollapseGiving BirthPositive ChangeNew Future Author:Shari Arison
“We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.” DreamRealityEffectsMovementMaterialsModelsAuthenticityConstructsPsychicsOur DreamsBaptized Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting. For example, we assume that what the model is wearing is what we found him in in the streets. No; in fact, a lot of what happens is that in Photoshop certain aspects are being heightened or diminished. There is no actual material truth in these paintings.” ShouldMayLittlesFactsRealitySeemsHappensCertainFoundRealizingStreetsExamplePaintingMaterialsModelsAspectAssumingMundanePhotoshop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.” WayWritingHumansLiteratureDoubtPositiveMaterialsHeroModelsUncertaintyProductiveCopiesExhaustedAppreciatedClicheRaw MaterialsPerplexity Author:Jose Saramago
“We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.” PeopleIfsWorldEnoughMomentsUseSeemsEarthSidesEconomyMaterialsModelsBuiltHolesAround The WorldDiggingDisrespectMaterialisticGlobal Economy Author:George Monbiot