Emendation Marcos Quotes & Sayings

Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have. — Robert Hass

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid. — Tom Green

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant ... — Moshe Feldenkrais

The brain is nourished by reaction and experience; it lives on experience. But experience is always limiting and conditioning; memory is the machinery of action. Without experience, knowledge and memory, action is not possible but such action is fragmentary, limited. Reason, organized thought, is always incomplete; idea, response of thought, is barren and belief is the refuge of thought. All experience only strengthens thought negatively or positively. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly. — Maurice Wilkes

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will. — Jon Lee Anderson

A show of daring oft conceals great fear. — Lucan

We who are profoundly joined in soul can only but heal the ruptures of the cosmos. — Peter Hoeg