#culture

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#architectural #center #civilization #concepts #culture

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#any #been #call #called #culture

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. ↗

— Bill Gates

#geeks #like #real #real trouble #trouble

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#couple #culture #decides #depends #history

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accomplishment #based #culture #prowess #remarkable

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. ↗

— Method Man

#gimmick #hip-hop #i #rap

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#culture #entity #faith #meeting #place

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes. ↗

— Ang Lee

#know #overwhelming #put #shoes #situation