Quotes About Things

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

When I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think that there are no little things.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequence come from little things... I am tempted to think there are no little things....

You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.

An Internet of Things is not a consumer society. It's a materialised network society. It's like a Google or Facebook writ large on the landscape.  Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.

The Internet of Things is not about a talking refrigerator, because that is the old-fashioned consumer retail world of electrical white goods. It's an archaic concept, like software bought in a plastic-wrapped box from a shelf. The genuine Internet of Things wants to invade that refrigerator, measure it, instrument it, monitor any interactions with it; it would cheerfully give away a fridge at cost.

Since the Internet of Things is built on silicon, on the tremendous instability of modern electronics, it's built on literal sand.

This is work," Andrei said. "Not a game." "We don't make that distinction," David told him seriously. "We do not have to 'work' in Rizome—just things to do and people to do them.

There's a Poe thing, right? "One out of one hundred things is discussed at great length because it really is obscure. Ninety-nine out of one hundred things are obscure because they're discussed at more length than they need to be.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don't entertain, nobody's listening.

A person's things can be a kind of exterior morphology of their mind.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters might be naught.

It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

I know it can be difficult to try and achieve your dreams when you don't have the same advantages as some other people may have, but this is a country full of opportunity where amazing things can happen, if you are willing to hustle and be smart about it.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.