George W. S. Trow (1943–2006) American writer
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
[199709291631.JAA08648@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
George W. S. Trow (1943–2006) American writer
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 114
“Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
In the perl man page.
Documentation
Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Source: Leadership and the New Science (1992), p. 144
“The context of love is the world.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"The Responsibility of the Poet".
What Are People For? (1990)
Context: Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.
Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Are You an Illusion (2014). 29.
Context: A particularly strong assumption here has been scientists’ deep reliance on atomization; on finding the meaning of things by breaking them down to their smallest components. Atomizations illustrates the simplest, most literal meaning of the word “reduction”; it works by making things smaller. The illumination that follows does not, of course, flow simply from their being smaller but from the wider scientific picture into which they can now be fitted. That picture gives them a new kind of context, a wider whole within which they can be differently understood. And finding that kind of context is an essential part of what “understanding” means.
“Because love requires context.”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Horns
Variant: Love requires Context.
“Nationalist in form; socialist in context.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"Language Policy in the Soviet Union", Lenore A. Grenoble, New York: NY, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003) p. 41.
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews