#v

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#boss #espn #i #myself #president

Cole envisioned the next few weeks passing as a sort of painless montage: there'd be music, and different moments of the townspeople hard at work building a defensive wall around the perimeter of the town, and digging holes to serve as traps, and training with the few weapons they had. There'd be a wiping of perspiration and drinks raised to one another and the exchange of friendly smiles between comrades, and perhaps deeper, more meaningful glances between him and MaryAnn. But by midmorning of the first day, Cole had come to the unavoidable conclusion that the remainder of the experience would in fact drag on in exceedingly real time, with lots of heaving and hoing and digging and hauling under the hot sun, full of the kind of intense straining that raised the danger of a really spectacular hernia. And, judging from the few tense conversations he'd had so far, he foresaw a series of increasingly strident arguments with Nora regarding matters strategic. Plus, of course, at the end of all this effort they'd all probably be dead. ↗

— Michael Rubens

#defensive-fortifications #montage #real-time #seven-samurai-homage #strategy

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#days #fall #football #going #i

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. ↗

— John Hawkins

#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#big #history #intuitive #look #obstacles

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#being #chair #current #does #everything

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#development #ensure #growth #most #orderly

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#also #any #ever #format #got

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. ↗

— Howard Hawks

#good #good movie #movie #scenes #three

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ↗

— Howard Hawks

#director #function #i #make #move