#detail

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#delicacy #detail #english #great #light

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#failing #life #lose #losing #music

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#box #brains #conference #data #detail

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings. ↗

— Lance Loud

#boots #brand #coordinates #cut #design

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#details #garbage #hackers #important #internal

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

#daily #daily life #details #genuine #happiness

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#certain #certain way #control #could #detailed

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting