“Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.”
Charlie Rose interview (2001)
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Richard Serra 11
American sculptor 1939Related quotes
“I started delivering flowers for 25 cents a shot so don't tell me about the shop floor.”
Newsnight debate (2010)
Weaving the Web (1999)
Context: At CERN there was a credo meant to avoid unnecessary labors, it said that when acquiring new technology: Buy, Don't Build. There were several commercial hypertext editors and I thought we could just add some internet code, so that the hypertext documents could then be sent over the internet. I thought the companies engaged in the then fringe field of hypertext would immediately grasp the possibilities of the web. Unfortunately, their reaction was quite the opposite... it seemed that explaining the vision of the web was exceedingly difficult without a web browser in hand, people had to be able to grasp the web in full, which meant imagining a whole world populated with websites and browsers. It was a lot to ask. Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own.
Good Enough
Song lyrics, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
“Don't tell me! Don't tell me!”
Reaction to news of father being shot quoted in Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X: A Journey of Strength from Wife to Widow to Heroine (2003) by Russell J. Rickford, p. 349
1960s
“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”