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Grid systems in graphic design -- Josef Muller-Brockmann
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky. -- Rem Koolhaas
Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope. -- Ian Foster
There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it. -- Van Jones
We're a superpower with a Third World grid. -- Bill Richardson
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. -- Chuck Close
Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. -- Ron Perlman
I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there. -- Jesse Ventura
I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid. -- Mark Webber
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. -- Neil Gaiman
From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense. -- Noreena Hertz
We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. -- Paul Gillmor
Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. -- Harold H. Greene
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. -- Alex Turner
If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. -- Spencer Abraham
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts. -- Richard Burr
I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work. -- Ryan Holmes
SIXX: A.M. is a passion project. I think when you do things like that and put your heart into them and do your best and don't necessarily put them on a marketing grid, that's when things turn out the best. -- Nikki Sixx
My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid. -- Jenson Button
Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. -- Frank Gaffney
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. -- Wynton Marsalis
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher. -- Dana Spiotta
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been. -- Norman Foster
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow. -- Eric Bana
Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer. -- Whitfield Diffie
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. -- Aaron Patzer
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There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says. -- Jerry Saltz
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that. -- Taylor Hawkins
You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. -- Shai Agassi
A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed. -- Massimo Vignelli
A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid. -- Dean Karnazes
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing -- Jay McInerney
Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse. -- Robert A. M. Stern
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. -- Terence McKenna
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We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity. -- Hillary Clinton
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field... -- John J. Geddes
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field... -- John J. Geddes
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Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life. -- Brad Feld
Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck. -- James Hunt
Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. -- Wynton Marsalis
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. -- Stephen Gardiner
It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet. -- Paul Vixie
I should invent a stationary bike/electrical generator/phonograph player, so that when the grid goes down I will have motivation to exercise for my nightly entertainment. -- Jarod Kintz
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. -- Bill Vaughan
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. -- Bill Vaughan
The incredible processing power of Tegra X1 enables us to bring Doom 3: BFG to Android and we're excited by the possibilities that GRID is bringing to gaming. -- Tim Willits
No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique. -- Max Lucado
I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos. -- Michelle Stuart
Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life. -- Matt Cartwright
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature. -- Alan Watts
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at. -- Richard Russo
The current generation of solar and wind power systems generally introduce instability into the electrical utility grid system with their intermittent power generation characteristics and electronically generated harmonic energy. -- Steven Magee
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. -- Ellen Lupton
Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies. -- Amy Pietz
I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening. -- Jesse Ventura
When I go off the grid, my main source of light will be fireflies. Oh, and the glow that will come from the epic love poem I am writing for you. -- Jarod Kintz
And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid. -- John W. Snow
I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings. -- Mickalene Thomas
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid. -- Jason Scott
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid. -- Jason Scott
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. -- Wim Crouwel
Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should be using all of the natural light and natural heat. -- Christiana Figueres
I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother. -- Angela Lindvall
With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today. -- Donald Sadoway

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