Affordances Quotes

#1. The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

James J. Gibson

#2. One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Sherry Turkle

#3. Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me.

Hermann Hesse

#4. All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Herman Melville

#5. (The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Jane Jacobs

#6. There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

John Fowles

#7. People who want to be loved", I say, "always do the most idiotic things ...

Rosamund Hodge

#8. I feel myself dissolve into a thousand molecules, amazed at how three small words can completely alter my state of being.

Amy Ewing

#9. My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Harrison Birtwistle

#10. All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

Haile Gebrselassie

#11. His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

Kristin Cashore

#12. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful
Of them, but this will not have anything
To do with what is promised today, our
Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear
On the horizon.

John Ashbery