“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.” IfsThinkingWorldKindTurnsFictionOughtModelsScalesBetter Than You Author:George Saunders
“I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.” NeedsShouldCarModelsObviousScalesYearningClientsSiteEntrancesObvious Things Author:Frank Gehry
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.” StatesGivenCommunityPerfectHeroNeededModelsClaimsDareTraumaScalesGenocideAshesReconciliationRisenRwanda Author:Wole Soyinka
“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.” TryingLooksPartyGoneCreativeHugePrideModelsAreasGardenDecidedScalesBe CreativeSaladMiniaturesOverboardBabylon Author:Gregory Maguire
“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.” YearsArtIdeasRealCitiesBuildingModelsDrawingScalesWeatherCraftsExpertsEngagementInteractionUrbanRecognizingSculptureMaintainingThrough The YearsCollaborating Author:Janet Echelman
“I'm sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can't answer that question. Unfortunately, I can't really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I'd be eradicated from the industry if I made my true feelings known.” IfsMadeI CanFeelingsAnswersKnownIndustryModelsSorryScalesStatementsPlasticI'm SorryModelingKnowledgeableTrue Feelings Author:Yoshiyuki Tomino
“When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.” MenLooksMadeRunningLastsNaturalHappenedModelsOppositesImpactDecadesScalesGlobal WarmingPollutionPlugsCorrespondenceFluctuation Author:Al Gore
“We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.” BodyFoolFitHealthyEqualModelsWork OutScalesLazyPlusSkinnyUnhealthyOverweightCurvy Author:Liris Crosse
“I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.” WorldCitiesIdentityModelsFoundationStructureScalesBelongingTemporarySiteInfrastructureAfarInstallation Author:Olivo Barbieri
“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.” PeopleIfsNeedsTwoDoneEnoughStudyDrugLimitsModelsStandardsResearchEvidenceDoctorsTreatsAddictionScalesTherapyArtificialDoctor WhoReplacementsLarge ScaleOpioidsResearch StudyMethadone Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a "beginner's mind," be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.” NeedsMindFoundStageModelsScalesFormerWhere You AreBlankAnticipateBeginnersBusiness Models Author:Scott D. Anthony
“That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.” FirstsLittlesStillsDifferentDoneCertainWaterCasesModelsFirst TimeBuiltIndependenceScalesExplosivesIndependence DayPackingPlasters Author:Roland Emmerich
“A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.” UsedHouseGrowsPayTechnologyCostApproachModelsManagementScalesUsed To BeDataExpensiveFundZeroSoftwareCapabilityNetworkingGearsMicrosoftScarceAmazonEnablingStorageDisruptiveServerData Centers Author:Geoffrey Moore
“It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.” ThinkingPlayMightForceSportsLossAbilityDealsTakenVictoryModelsFairsScalesBehaveStrategicBrutesBrute ForceStrategic Thinking Author:Will Self
“Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.” NeedsHumansEyeIndividualSocialProcessGroupsConflictModelsSittingScalesOpeningConfusedHuman ExperienceSpectatorsFutilityPhysicalityFutility Of Life Author:Will Self