Mrs Appleyard Quotes & Sayings

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one. — Eric S. Raymond

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. — Bryan Appleyard

That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest. — Bryan Appleyard

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films! ... by all means/above all else ... etcetera. — Stan Brakhage

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort. — Sathya Sai Baba

Sometimes, of course, the sister's the wicked one, not the stepmother. — Franny Billingsley

Mrs. Appleyard, in contrast, was thin and sallow and when her husband was out of the apartment Ursula could hear her singing mournfully to herself in a language that she couldn't place. Something Eastern European by the sound of it. How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) And especially these days with so many refugees flooding into London. — Kate Atkinson

If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked. — Bryan Appleyard

Science has taken away our religion. — Bryan Appleyard

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves. — Bryan Appleyard

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. — Bryan Appleyard

It's about people who still are unaware. Therefore they strive to live by all means: love like no one before them loved, believe like no one ever believed, desire like no one else ever desired ... — Marius Ivaskevicius

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. — Bernie Sanders

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal. — Bryan Appleyard

It is ... idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature. — Bryan Appleyard

The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I. — Wright Morris

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet. — Bryan Appleyard

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. — Derek Bailey

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours. — Bryan Appleyard

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down. — Bryan Appleyard

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. — Galen Rowell

What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Preparing to survive a typical day of being Digby's friend wasn't that different from preparing to survive the apocalypse. — Stephanie Tromly