#battery

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#battery #beautiful #building #cheap #contradictory

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apple #battery #believe #compromise #conflicting

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#battery #below #cars #different #different shapes

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#been #down #downtown #following #four

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#areas #battery #behind #caused #china

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#battery #complete #complete person #evil #feel

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#anything #battery #care #ethanol #gas

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#check #computer #e-mail #getting #gone

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#arrested #battery #charged #drinking #eating