Traditional Quotes

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. (Donald Knuth)
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. View quote
John Goodman
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. View quote
Margaret Drabble
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. View quote
Tadao Ando
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific. View quote
Frank Luntz
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function. View quote
Jonathan Ive
There are comparatively few significant inefficiencies in the allocation of the factors of production in traditional agriculture. (Theodore Schultz)
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems. View quote
Fatos Nano
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. View quote
Erma Bombeck
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business. View quote
Richard Overy
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. View quote
Thom Mayne
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. View quote
Amy Chua
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. (Christopher Lasch)
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. View quote
Lynn Abbey
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. View quote
Alex Campbell
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. View quote
Harry Seidler
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. View quote
Thomas Menino