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Content Quotes


"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."


"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"


"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."


"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."


"Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?"


"But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content."


"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."


"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."


"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."


"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."


"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."


"I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done."


"While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things."


"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."


"They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there."


"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."


"It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?"


"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."


"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."


"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."


"Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters."


"Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease."


"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."
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