John Battelle

Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or not, boxes and rectangles have for the most part become the province of direct response advertising, or brand advertising that pays, on average, as if it's driven by direct response metrics.

American Businessman

Tom Wujec

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

Canadian Author

Hanya Yanagihara

Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

American Novelist

Chris Milk

Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed.

American Artist

David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

English Artist

Daniel Farke

You have to bring this ball over this line and into this rectangle. It is not like synchronised swimming, where you are judged by your unbelievably beautiful performance.

German Football Player

Nathan Sawaya

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

Often used in math classes when learning about shapes and properties of angles.

Common Geometry Term

Helpful to draw rectangles to understand problems involving area and perimeter.

Visual Aid

Rectangles can describe the shape of everyday items like books, screens, and doors.

Real-life Objects

In computing, used to describe the shape of the spaces where users interact, like windows.

User Interface

Rectangular areas help organize elements on a webpage or application interface.

Layout Design

Rectangles often outline areas of importance or focus on screen.

Visual Boundaries

Used to refer to surfaces of three-dimensional objects, not just flat shapes.

3D Geometry

Rectangles are fundamental in technical blueprints and engineering designs.

Engineering Drawing

 you're doing it in pretty much the same way. You're hunched over these rectangles, fumbling with buttons and menus and more rectangles. And I think this is the wrong way, I think we can start using a much more natural machine. We should use machines that bring our work back into the world. We should use machines that use the principles of neuroscience

A glimpse of the future...

 See, this whole problem started when people wanted to watch movies from the theater in the comfort of their own homes. Movie screens are considerably larger than our home television. More important, the screen is completely different rectangle and can't mathematically fit on our TV screens without manipulation.

Why the shape of your...

 But he was really cool about it, and he took me up there, and we talked about fractals. And he said, "Oh yeah, yeah! We knew about a rectangle within a rectangle, we know all about that." And it turns out the royal insignia has a rectangle within a rectangle within a rectangle,

Ron Eglash: The fractals...

 So you get this kind of big square, okay? Now, I want you to take the bill and fold it like this, lengthwise, so it becomes like a rectangle, and then again -- really fold it, really crease it -- and when you have it, please fold the bill again into a little square like this

Helder Guimarães: A...

 and you'll notice that it starts with a rectangle on the outside or the exterior, and all food symbols start with a rectangle. You notice there's a diagonal line going from corner to corner and a dot right in the center. That is the only symbol that will ever look that way.

Orangutan understands 72...

 how the television worked I said little rectangle pixels they change color and as they change color that changes the picture well right as I said that a kershel came on with a big o and you know how kids sometimes see right to the core of a problem she said

How math saved my life PIPE...

 And when he stops in front of a house, he stops in front of your house. And this was great, and I saw people having an even deeper emotional reaction to this than the things that I had made in rectangles. And I'm essentially taking a piece of your history

Chris Milk: How virtual...

 you have to have trousers or leggings and so they invented the world's first tailored garments if you think about it the greeks and egyptians they're all wearing big rectangles of cloth pinned together the scythians are wearing tailored

The Real Amazons PIPE...

 And why do hundreds of millions of people around the world congregate to watch them? I want you all the imagine for second -- imagine you land on an alien planet, and on this planet, there's a giant green rectangle.

What streaming means for...

 and that's paying attention to the world around us. So many artists speak about needing to be open, to embrace experience, and that's hard to do when you have a lighted rectangle in your pocket that