"We are that strange species that constructs artifacts……" — William Gibson
"We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think…
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into…
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Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and…
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He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and…
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Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
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More Artifacts Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
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Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into…
— Diane Ackerman
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And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as…
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful…
— Douglas Groothuis
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous…
— Aldo Leopold
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire…
— Edward Abbey
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In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model;…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist…
— Ronald Rolheiser
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Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more…
— Unknown Author
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[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to…
— Unknown Author
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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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