A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling.… — Gotye Copy Share Image
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie… — Michel de Certeau 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
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect… — Johannes Grenzfurthner Copy Share Image
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
It's a response from Donald Trump [to the Pope]. It says, "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS..." Their primary… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God -… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple… — William Styron Copy Share Image
All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I think the more music becomes something you could simply download and have on your iPod, I think to a lot of… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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