#project

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#been #certain #certain time #commercial #development

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone. ↗

— Florence Ballard

#always #dream #fantastic #i #i always

That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care. ↗

— Brande Roderick

#angeles #basic #care #food #funds

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#been #fitting #fitting in #i #into

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#find #getting #i #imposing #judgements

With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In India, he charmed a powerful provincial family and ended up making huge, sculptural relics in Chandigarh. ↗

— Masato Otaka

#le-corbusier #metobolism-talks #project-japan #rem-koolhaas #architecture

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. ↗

— Mike Norton

#honest #honesty #humble #humility #liar

Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better. Freedom and choice are good, but a life steeped in thinking, learning, and doing is better. It’s not enough to say, “Go, do whatever you like.” To help children become skilled thinkers and learners, to help them become people who make and do, we need a life centered around those experiences. We need to show them how to accomplish the things they want to do. We need to prepare them to make the life they want. ↗

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #learning-process #project-based-homeschooling

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#breaking-down-assignment #childhood #encouragement #homework #project