#tails

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#belief #details #easier #either #harder

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#finding #jacket #nixon #out #tails

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#despise #entails #go #i #i see

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#details #distinguish #hard #hear #once

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#details #doubt #europe #may #more

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#along #asia #began #camera #details

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#both sides #committed #compromise #entails #extend