history Quotes

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.