Quotes About Perspective

living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the

Many of the figures in his preparatory drawings are nude; he had come to believe in Alberti's advice that an artist should build a picture of a human body from the inside out, first conceiving of the skeleton, then the skin, then the clothing.

Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on

Gates soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit à crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : — Il y a une autre façon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox était notre riche voisin à tous les deux, et quand je suis entré chez lui pour lui voler sa télévision, j'ai découvert que tu l'avais déjà emportée !

This ability to "make a flat surface display a body as if modeled and separated from this plane," Leonardo said, was "the first intention of the painter."3

It's not something I want to judge Steve by.

I came to work with Steve for a week," Lin recalled.

Leonardo had a free-range mind that merrily wandered across all the disciplines of the arts, sciences, engineering, and humanities. His knowledge of how light strikes the retina helped inform the perspective in The Last Supper, and on a page of anatomical drawings depicting the dissection of lips he drew the smile that would reappear in the Mona Lisa. He knew that art was a science and that science was an art.

asked Jobs why he wanted me to be the one to write his biography. "I think you're good at getting people to talk," he replied.

Every part will be drawn, using all means of demonstrations, from three different points of view; for when you have seen a limb from the front, with any muscles, sinews, or veins which take their rise from the opposite side, the same limb will be shown to you in a side view or from behind, exactly as if you had that same limb in your hand and were turning it from side to side until you had acquired a full comprehension of all you wished to know.

Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking

Reflecting years later on his spiritual feelings, he said that religion was at its best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it

Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay más de una forma de verlo. Yo diría más bien que es como si ambos tuviésemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me colé en su casa para robar el televisor, descubrí que ya te lo habías llevado tú.

The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of that view of a relationship between a man and wife, he [Einstein] told Maric, Because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a life-long contract.

The obvious yet still astonishing conclusion: with no such thing as absolute simultaneity, there is no such thing as "real" or absolute time.

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise.

One evening at a dinner, Murray's wife asked him why he remained so cheerful given the depravity of the world. "We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy.

It is very important to note, however, that the theory of relativity does not mean that "everything is relative." It does not mean that everything is subjective. Instead

Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?

Two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system.

One can oppose the shallow optimism of so many Western thinkers and yet refuse to negate life.