Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts.… — Alison Lurie 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
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself… — Sheri S. Tepper 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
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
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts… — A. O. Scott 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
Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically — Tim Crane 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
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] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place… — Lucy Suchman Copy Share Image
I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein 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
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
[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts. — Nicholas Negroponte 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
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
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
Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads… — Robert Venosa Copy Share Image
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image