Quotes About Context

As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Dimensions provide the "who, what, where, when, why, and how" context surrounding a business process event. Dimension tables contain the descriptive attributes used by BI applications for filtering and grouping the facts.

ignoring the whole content and context of St. Faustina's message of Divine Mercy has contributed to the very same deceit.

There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

But being considered the best speaker in a computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Games aren't stories. Games aren't about beauty or delight. Games aren't about jockeying for social status. They stand, in their own right, as something incredibly valuable. Fun is about learning in a context where there is no pressure from consequence, and that is why games matter.

***(C)(P) I WILL SAY THIS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY:-I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THE CONTEXT AND MEANINGS BEHIND EVERY REGGAE SONGS MADE BY BOB MARLEY, PETER , BUNNY, AND OTHERS FROM OUR TRENCH TOWN REGGAE FAMILY.NO ONE ELSE CAN SAY THAT.I SHARED MANY OF MY LYRICAL TEACHINGS WITH THEM AND LIVED THE EXPERIENCES. WHO WOULD DARE TO CONTEST ME?

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

Most people would accept that we are, to a certain extent, products of our environment.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

A lot of us who've made grime might be in the chart, but that is because of the country we are in.

I don't think anything predated Christians.

I'm mindful I won't be supported by everyone but I hope that people can keep an open mind and perhaps look at my performance in a broader context.

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style that lands in a place is almost stronger than the place. For me it's about inventing a solution for each place; if people then want to know who did it, then great.

I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.

El historiador es un experto, no un físico. No busca las causas de la explosión en la fuerza expansiva de los gases, sino en la cerilla del fumador