Artifacts Quotes

65 quotes by 58 authors

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is… — William S. Burroughs
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent… — Diane Ackerman
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What… — Kenneth Goldsmith
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text… — Douglas Groothuis
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very… — Aldo Leopold
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about… — Joseph Brodsky
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be… — Ronald Rolheiser
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge. — Walter Guido Vincenti
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in… — Lucy Suchman
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such… — John Searle
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body… — Marshall McLuhan
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our… — Wes Jackson
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of… — Stephen Shore
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… — Nick Cave
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After… — M. John Harrison
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves… — Gotye

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