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“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

“The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

Years Made Use Home Remember Used Pieces Objects Taught Materials Mom Machines My Mom Singers Grandmother Flats My Grandmother Intriguing Sewing Pedals

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.”

Ifs Real Pieces Objects Truth Is Luck Mere Conviction Grounded Real Things

Book:Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)

Source: Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

“Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.”

Way War Pieces Military Objects Activity Weapons Strategy Injury Relentless Exhausting Militarism

Book:The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Source: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

“I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.”

Looks Individual Pieces Objects Sculpture Furniture

Author:Kelly Wearstler

“The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.”

Has Beens Culture Effort Pieces Objects Huge Invention Variety Landscape Planes Aviation Technological Sculpture Catalyst

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.”

Knows Giving Art Watches Pieces Nice Objects Like You Sells Shoes Luxury Shirts Jackets Accessories Handbags

Author:Ricardo Guadalupe

“A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.”

Pieces Objects Materials Paper Photograph

Book:Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

Source: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...

“You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.”

Way Two Different Space Steps Pieces Objects Negative Photograph Different Ways Aesthetic Space Between Negative Space

Author:Taryn Simon

“Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.”

Form Term Pieces Written Objects Approach Tricks Programming Software Components Rewriting

Author:Bill Gates