The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty.… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to… — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
![“It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for…” quote by Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/725/edward-said-6412_american-capitalism_it-9-11-event-was-aimed-at-symbols-the-w_2931286.jpg)
