Quotes About Context

During this period, he did some things that challenge our modern sensibilities.

A startup is an institution, not just a product, and so it requires a new kind of management specifically geared to its context of extreme uncertainty.

The Lean Startup adapts these ideas to the context of entrepreneurship, proposing that entrepreneurs judge their progress differently from the way other kinds of ventures do.

Interpretation reached such proportions that the real vanished.

Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment.

El proceso y las condiciones históricas de enunciación modifican todos los enunciados. El sentido es un efecto frágil (y no sustancial) relacionado con la enunciación: emerge en la actividad de escribir-leer y no está enlazado a las palabras sino a los contextos de las palabras… No hay modo de que un texto sea idéntico a su doble.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." This is certainly true in the kitchen. Tools are not neutral objects. They change with changing social context. A mortar and pestle was a different thing for the Roman slave forced to pound up highly amalgamated mixtures for hours on end for his master's enjoyment than it is for me: a pleasing object with which I make pesto for fun, on a whim.

Different meals, different times of day and different locations can all make the same food or drink seem either desirable or not. Call it the retsina effect: that resinated white wine that is so refreshing when sipped on a Greek island tastes of paint-stripper back home in the rain.

Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

I actually used the word "groovy" and she didn't even flinch, which was worrying on so many levels.

I hate it when people listen to what I say in an inappropriate fashion.

A single message, no matter how apparently unambiguous, can mean more than one thing. I'm counting on it.

For educators, not providing a global context for your students in today's world is almost criminal.

which seemed the right decision given what we knew then.

Every true history is contemporary history.

All history is contemporary history.

If "good" is not necessarily good, and "bad" not necessarily bad, what is "small"?

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.

Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.