I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge. — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair,… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“It came out smoothly and without a single hesitation, supporting my idea that stories are artifacts: not really made things which we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“When ships are wrecked in storms, Ariel collects the artifacts left behind—a teapot, dinner plates, a man's pipe, and a sewing thimble—and… — Amy Ellis Nutt Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true"… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
Chloe-lass: If I'm not here with you now, I'm beyond this life, for 'tis the only way I'll ever let you go.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The basis of national identity is to say, "This is authentic to me or my forebears," and is there even such a… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
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