#ails

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings. ↗

— Lance Loud

#boots #brand #coordinates #cut #design

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ↗

— Horace Mann

#former #jails #latter #less #many

Art is all in the details. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#details

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#details #garbage #hackers #important #internal

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed

The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot. ↗

— David Neeleman

#emails #essential #i #keeping #lot

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#discovered #fairly #inevitably #keeping #many

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#inward #judgment #never #often #outward

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop. ↗

— Axl Rose

#i #inch #like #nails #nine