Cartesians Quotes & Sayings

Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning" and Turing's equally revolutionary inversion were aspects of a single discovery: competence without comprehension. Comprehension, far from being a Godlike talent from which all design must flow, is an emergent effect of systems of uncomprehending competence: natural selection on the one hand, and mindless computation on the other. These twin ideas have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but they still provoke dismay and disbelief in some quarters, which I have tried to dispel in this chapter. Creationists are not going to find commented code in the inner workings of organisms, and Cartesians are not going to find an immaterial res cogitans "where all the understanding happens". — Daniel C. Dennett

How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again. — Damien Echols

I'm not anything that you think I am — Syd Barrett

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes. — Judi Dench

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. — Orson Welles

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone. — Chanel West Coast

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is. — Shannon Sharpe

She was so light; he could hold her all night without a problem. — Cherise Sinclair

You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country. — Erica Jong