don't have that kind of person and you're raising not only that problem but an even bigger problem and conceits that has infected this country is that the only way you get into the middle class is having a four-year
It just flips on, and whatever's on your phone starts. My conceit always is that the story of a design is more important than the aesthetics of the design.
And we're going to run over, and we're going to try and break into the stock exchange, essentially. That's the conceit of the video. And so we needed, like, stockbroker types and hedge-fund guys.
So one of the tag lines for the show is "Where the truth lies." And you write that the main insight into Don's character, and the most important conceit of the show, is that Don Draper can lie anywhere except in advertising. And why is that?
how to reboot the civilization? And the conceit is that that's the book in your lap right now, that "The Knowledge" is this single tome that tells you how to redo or rebuild all the functions of a modern civilization, of a technological civilization.
I've enjoyed these last two years. And the conceit , at least, is that this is the one tome, the one book you would need to reboot civilization from scratch with all these different functions of the modern world you would need to recreate.
We know a bit more nowadays, so that would be perhaps impossible, and even something like Wikipedia doesn't even come close. So the conceit , the kind of cheeky answer, if you like, up the website is you would get an iPad or another kind of tablet, you would jerry-rig with a solar panel or an alternator from a car to regenerate power for yourself and recharge your batteries, and you
And this is our first time talking together about these-- and we happened to have done these two books about language. And the overarching conceit of polyglots versus translators is that, even though the news about languages in the world is that they are dying off at an alarming rate, there are still thousands and thousands of languages, which poses several ways of dealing with that diversity.
In fact, I decided I wanted to be-- well, I called it an inventor when I was five. And I had this conceit . I know what I'm going to be, and it kind of reflected my family philosophy that if you have the right ideas, you can
It happens to different people, to a different kind of people. It's not something that I am likely to be involved in. That's every audience member's conceit . And you know, I wanted to close that up. I wanted to write a story where the audience couldn't really distance themselves from this family. Where this was sort of an ordinary family and there was nothing exotic about them, and this is, this is you. This is you to the extent that the 'you' is anybody.
So I don't wanna get too deeply into electoral politics but I'd love to take some questions on it if you have some. I think the basic conceit of this book though is I fear that the brittleness that we are encouraging in American foreign policy will lead to something akin to a Lehman Brothers moment in geopolitical terms.
made of paper and it was only so big and the the conceit of the editors of the times was that if you read the whole thing you were up to date on
uh the the style I always saw when I was writing this was a mix between you know know the the conceit here is that England has been under this unmentionable Menace from the strange plague for about 50 years and one of the
would be one of the world's most valuable companies and they'd all be billionaires, that would be preposterous. This would be preposterously conceited and dilusional. And so that wasn't what they were thinking.
So "Gravity" and "The Martian", I'd say, would fall into that realm, where you're just making sure you get the science as right as possible, with a few story conceits that we understood going in. Well, firstly, another thing I'm just writing about now is a lot of the real-world issues about space travel are completely obviated by something that's
Color often sort of anchors something in time. If there are conceits in the movie, like animals talk, embrace them, declare them, and don't apologize or explain
itself. Here's the thing to understand. There's kind of a conceit that there's a complicated solution to life's complex human problems, but it always leads to bigger problems.
is kind of the whole conceit of the talk.
That was kind of the narrative conceit of the second book.
And I thought that the conceit was so brilliant, that you have to just set it up all along.
If you're going to give a conceit to a one-man piece, where I'm going to talk to you directly, there has to be a reason for you to be there.
And I really worked on this memoir with this conceit in mind for about four or five years.
Because obviously, the conceit here is that somehow the internet can crash, which is a little-- Correct.
They recognize that sometimes problem solution is a hubristic conceit .
I mean, the conceit it's hilarious.
Now, I do realize the absolute conceit of me coming into Google and trying to tell you how to do email.
So all the setups for all these plays come from a very conscious conceit of where we are, why I'm talking, and why you are listening.
It's true. It's not a false conceit .
So I think that the critical failure of the present regime in money is the conceit that it is better for us
Dan Sinker: Right. That's the conceit . The whole early part of the story is this guy basically being like, "Oh my God. I have to do this, too?" Like he knows he's gonna be
But anyway, the good room was a conceit . And the conceit of the good room was that,
Então, é um baita orgulho de um conceito brasileiro, é recente, a receita do dadinho tem 15 anos, dentro dessa história é relativamente recente,
Imagina, cruzar o mundo para apresentar um conceito num mercado
Dessa vez o convite foi do próprio Pedro Moreira Salles para criar um conceito para estar ali dentro,
be a jerk, or they might be conceited , or cocky, or whatever it might be.
where you yourself are worshiped inside of it, but not to the point of conceit -- some of you take it there.
And eventually, we realized that we had to honor this incredible conceit that Sonny and the team and Gavin had come up with of Kong being operated
So then what makes a story right for "Reply All" if the internet is such a loose conceit .
But I'd worked in science fiction that would've been stemmed originally from some science conceit like entropy, death, or something like that.
And that's the dramatic, or the sci-fi, conceit of it.
some sense in the same business um and uh and let me kind of unpack the conceit for you I think that at at the heart of
Even if it is, but I think it's very self conceited .
Sei que o Brasil tem potencial e grandes chefs, grandes conceitos, diversidade, para ter grandes restaurantes nas maiores cidades do mundo.
messaging and it's typically harmful for their own sense of self. Or they're becoming conceited , you know, in hockey, thinking that you know, because they're because
Now, obviously, it's got to big conceits in it.
But yeah, so I think it was something I had to do, which is take a formal constraint or a formal conceit
And it had, at its root, one kind of core conceit , if you will, from a writing perspective.
I mean, by setting these characters, making them actually deaf, it's not like a theatrical conceit that there's sign language.
It's maybe today more difficult to find those inefficient areas, but it's not impossible." So the central conceit of any investor
a guy named Todd Reynolds, who's a really amazing incredible violinist. And the conceit of it is, you have these four birds flocking around, and what they're trying desperately