Installation Quotes - Page 2

• Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.

  Donald A. Norman

  Team, Errors, Confusion

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman. Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. ix, 2002.

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• The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

  Jim Harrison

  Jobs, Husband, Fighting

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• Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Running, Reality, Trying

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• But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

  Basil Bunting

  Determination, Fool, Idiot

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Perspective, Building, Accounts

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• So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Philosophy, Heart, Men

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• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Moving, Space

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• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Jose Saramago

  Easter, Military, Uzbekistan

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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Needs

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• It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Past

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• All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

  Fatos Nano

  Mean, Air, Tanks

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• If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

  Peter King

  Military, Blame, Civilians

  "For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past" by Scott Shane, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2011.

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• The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Numbers, Unix, Expected

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• In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.

  Donald Judd

  Summer, Art, Winter

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.

  Enver Hoxha

  Communication, Sacrifice, Electric Power

  "Selected Works, 1941 - 1948" by Enver Hoxha, Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, vol. I, 1974.

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• Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Use, Ease, Today

  "Mouthing off about linux". www.jwz.org. 2000.

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• My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Dog, School

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• Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Two, Sound, Hearing

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• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  Gavin Bryars

  Art, Writing, College

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Doubt

  "An improbable conversation: new Met exhibition attempts to mix and match Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada" by Grace-Yvette Gemmell, www.politico.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had a couple of weeks in the country for a union installation and they had educational programs and all sorts of things. There was a life, you know, a real community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Couple, Real

  Source: www.iww.org

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• I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Wall, Black And White, Drawing

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.

  Tom Riley

  Art, Jobs, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge installations of wind and solar in places like Africa. These things are going to happen no matter what. They're going to happen for largely non-policy free market reasons even in the United States.

  Chris Mooney

  Wind, Energy, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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