#sign

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#been #biological #build #design #fact

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. ↗

— Charles Eames

#architecture #degenerated #design #direct #idea

The details are not the details. They make the design. ↗

— Charles Eames

#details #make

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. ↗

— David Letterman

#just #new #new york #rough #signals

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#every #global #got #i #issues