“The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.” IfsMeanDifferentTroubleSourceShapesDown AndCopiesSay AnythingReluctantCopying Author:Michael Heizer
“Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.” PeopleIfsWorldDoeHas BeensArtAliveTroubleSeriousFitShapesSizeBuriedUsualConventionsGiftedConvenientInconvenientTailorsCrumbling Author:R. D. Laing
“The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.” TroubleHugeShapesBrandsImplicationsIphone Author:Eric S. Raymond
“The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.” IfsDoeHas BeensWould BeChanceTroubleShapesDevilSignalsHideousCounterfeit Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingImportantSometimesStoriesWaitingForgetRolesKnow HowTroubleShapesSittingDown AndNewspapersReportersReally GreatSitting AroundNewspaper ReportersShutting Down Author:Biz Stone
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio