The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds… — John Searle Copy Share Image
I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know… — David Carson Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape,… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor.… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image