“One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.” ProblemTogetherForgetPiecesCivilizationSkillsWesternContemporarySplitsSmallestComponentsBack TogetherWestern CivilizationTogether AgainBack Together AgainDissection Author:Alvin Toffler
“I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.” MadeFactsRomanceMaterialsSkillsMethodInventionContemporaryConstructionEngineeringPaleGroundworkSkills And Knowledge Book:Invasion of the Sea Source: Invasion of the Sea
“I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.” SawsSkillsHollywoodContemporaryAdmireGet AwayMainstreamSensibilityIconsSpiritedHollywood Movies Author:David Gordon Green
“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.” KindSometimesLightBeautifulReadingGivenInformationSkillsPhotographerPhotographCloudsContemporaryLandscapeDramaticBuriedMundaneSiftingPretty PictureBeautiful Landscapes Author:Lucy R. Lippard