Context Quotes

“Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all.”

“In the battle between the bear and the alligator, it is the terrain that determines who wins.”

“My mission is to create a structure that is sensitive to the culture and climate of its place.”

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

“I think the context is really important. The song is the most important thing.”

“Perhaps the most important thing that has been left out of the study of women is the social context in which they live.”

“A fact is a pivot of circumstances.”

“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.”

“Responsibility requires attentiveness to the particularities of a situation, not just the application of abstract principles.”

“I think it's important to have a sense of history when you're covering politics.”

“A fact is a fact only in the context of some background assumptions.”

“The ability to understand context is a critical frontier for artificial intelligence.”

“I've always been interested in the way music reflects the times in which it's created.”

“A historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time.”

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

“Religion was the idiom in which the men of the seventeenth century thought.”

“The site is not a backdrop for the work, but a part of the work.”

“There is no such thing as a history of a single event. There are only histories of men in society.”

“Genuine history is therefore the history of situations, not of events.”

“To know a man, you must know his circumstances.”