Quotes About Context

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.

Context can influence what actions we choose to make and how we choose to make them, it can influence how these actions are judged by ourselves and others, and thus how successful and significant they turn out to be.

Geographical context is often thought about in terms of national or political territories, physical landscapes, or exotic places.

What cultural geography seeks to do, therefore, is explore the intersections of context and culture.

In the future, the churches will focus less on gaining political control of the levers of power and more on subverting power and the systems through which it is exercised, holding the powerful to account and shaping the contexts in which they operate. Drawing on the idea of 'the powers' that lie behind systems, institutions, and governments, the church will involve itself in identifying, examining, and exposing the 'idols' of the political system.

And many other places to the like purpose. And therefore men can be justified by their words, no otherwise than as evidences or manifestations of what is in the heart. And it is thus that Christ speaks of the words in this very place, as is evident by the context, ver. 34, 35. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart," &c. The words

Human nature is a complex mix of preparations for extreme selfishness and extreme altruism. Which side of our nature we express depends on culture and context. When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

They concluded that most of the bizarre and depressing research findings make perfect sense once you see reasoning as having evolved not to help us find truth but to help us engage in arguments, persuasion, and manipulation in the context of discussions with other people.

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Chess is about the experience of passion, intimacy and caring but not in the way we typically use these terms. The game reveals implicit meanings in the idea of love by offering a shift in perspective and context. The point is that metaphors don't function merely as comparisons but more as translations, recreations or re-presentations.

Certainly, b?r?' is only ever used of God, but is not restricted to creatio ex nihilo. And '?s?h is sometimes used to mean 'create ex nihilo'.

Jesus, Christianity, and the New Testament documents are birthed directly out of Judaism, and so whatever else we understand about their meaning must be grounded in this reality. Any reading that ignores this is a decontextualized reading that may bear some fruit but cannot be described as sensitive to the intention of the text.

What has been said is often less important than what has not been said.

Tightly relating the code to an underlying model gives the code meaning and makes the model relevant.

Lexical scope means that we can determine the scope of a variable by reading our code.

Closures are a function along with a referencing environment.

One thing that often misleads people learning closures is that they think the environment in the closure must have a copy of all the variables and their values. It doesn't. In

Now, when we have an environment that has a value for each of the free variables, we say that we've closed the function. And, when we take the function and the environment together, we say we have a closure.

In fact, there's a keyword in JavaScript named this, and that is exactly how you tell JavaScript you mean this object we're in.

Angel Mena Garcia with the Assemblies of God in Panama described his ministry this way: "Our obligation as pastors is to teach and train members, so in any context of life they can also share in the evangelism. I don't consider myself a desk pastor; I am a pastor of the street.

and P.L.O. Guy (whose initials were okay for then but mean something entirely different now).