Grids Quotes - Page 4

• I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

  Jason Scott

  Sweet, Eight, Years

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.

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• I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.

  Stephen Beal

  Thinking, Light, Fog

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

  Jack Welch

  May, Emotion, Formidable

  Jack Welch (2014). “Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.

  Russell Sherman

  Moving, Psychics, Two

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• It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back.

  Brian Wayne Peterson

  Thinking, Secret, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Keys, Government, Long

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• We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

  Peter Facinelli

  Reality, Thinking, Worry

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• For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Technology, Bridges

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Suicide, Self Harm, Arms

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• I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Years, Cities, Giving

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

  James Hunt

  Car, Wrecks, Shaking

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• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Christ On The Cross, Knowing

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger. Christian Century article, pp.368-370, www.religion-online.org. April 11, 1990.

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• Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

  Brad Feld

  Balance, Amy, Changing Your Life

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• With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

  Donald Sadoway

  Wind, Giants, Batteries

  "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.

  Ian Foster

  Moving, Community, Innovation

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• I think the race went as well as it could and I drove well to finish sixth. The chassis is working better and through the corners we are more or less there; we'll move onto Europe and see if we can get further up the grid and keep improving. The weekend went pretty smooth for me until the end of the race, I don't know what happened, but the team will have a look at it.

  Daniel Ricciardo

  Team, Moving, Weekend

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• Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  Dan Wheldon

  Two, Race, Able

  "Indianapolis 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies After Massive Crash", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

  Frank Gaffney

  Mean, Iran, Korea

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• Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Way, Deadline

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  House, Community, Historical

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• You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.

  Mirah

  Running, Art, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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