Constraint Quote by David Christian Download Open image “What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.” — David Christian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constraint Define History Interest Me Normally
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the… — Dexter Perkins Copy Share Image
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“the conquests of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic dynasties encouraged commercial and intellectual exchanges reaching from central Asia to India to the western Mediterranean. In… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“So, as networks expand in size, their potential intellectual synergy increases much faster: “larger and denser populations equal faster technological advance.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
“typical modern households live in urban environments where they earn incomes through some form of wage work and buy food produced by others. In… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
“The modern world is ruled by larger and more impersonal forces, from faceless bureaucracies to abstractions such as “inflation,” or “the rule of law.”… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“contain into new, durable configurations, which can handle huge energy flows without disintegrating. This, we will see, is the characteristic pattern of all such… — David Christian Copy Share Image
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility. — David Christian Copy Share Image
If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching… — David Christian Copy Share Image
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains… — Manuel de Landa Copy Share Image
“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints. You wonder… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
If you don't have a healthy workforce, you can't develop economically. And if you don't have a well-educated and healthy workforce, that is a… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image… — Satpal Maharaj Copy Share Image
