#presentation

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#fame

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#certain #certain way #convey #everybody #got

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#computer #david #excitement #generated #good

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#child #distorted #history #knows #lenses

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#capabilities #our #presentation #work

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#am #fan #i #i am #now

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ↗

— Karl Marx

#oppression #politics #representation #repression #society

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#absolute truth #confuse #describe #itself #like

Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#did #every #how #i #i do

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#eliminate #enables #home #presentation #recording