#understood

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#every #frightened #genius #had #head

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#austria #both #countries #cultural #france

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ↗

— Judith Butler

#cannot #historically #jews #legitimately #now

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#communications #cryptography #did #expect #expected

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#beginning #help #him #knowledge #knows

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#being #changes #context #energy #fact

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#blue #computers #crash #darth #darth vader

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. ↗

— Frank Norris

#by the people #did #end #ever #generation

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

#duran #emotive #happy #i #i think

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#believed #doing #doors #down #ended