#ode

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' ↗

— Larry Ellison

#i #i do #jobs #like #model

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#decide #lets #modern #think #upgrade

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#boat #book #characters #far #feel

I understand that I'm a role model. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#model #role #role model #understand

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#postmodernism #attitude

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adrian #business #first #got #gray

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#models #must #new #old #our

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#get #i #latin #latin women #looking

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining