Books Quote by Henry Hitchens (Browse

Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another.…

— Vannevar Bush

“This complex constellation of responses occurred quickly, automatically, and effortlessly. You did not will it and you could not stop it. It was an…

— Daniel Kahneman

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and…

— Marcel Danesi

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and syntax like…

— David Salle

The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by…

— Daniel H. Pink

I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let…

— Paul Washer

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform…

— Marcel Proust

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind…

— Blaise Pascal

Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It…

— Max Nordau

Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo.…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus