#objects

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#beings #carry #centuries #evidence #happened

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#com #documented #importance #important #increasing

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#entire #find #least #lurking #objects

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#construction #expensive #installation #makes #objects

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attribute #causes #different #essential #excite

These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that. ↗

— Brian Welch

#before #best #came #chick #compete

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. ↗

— John Selden

#born #his #learning #man #matter

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#objects #politics #skilled #use

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#call #double #first #i #objects

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #materialism #mind #money #objects