Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions at certain stages of history perpetuate and produce such a deficit and even threaten human survival.
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992 an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling money was scarce and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings performance art John Cage Joseph Beuys and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile a new art world was coming into being.