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• Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any… — 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… — Diane Ackerman
• And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as… — Kenneth Goldsmith
• The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful… — Douglas Groothuis
• Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous… — Aldo Leopold
• We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson
• In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model;… — Joseph Brodsky
• Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist… — Ronald Rolheiser
• Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more… — Walter Guido Vincenti
• [The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to… — Lucy Suchman
• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads.… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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