Quotes of: Technical-knowledge Keyword

Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written in the Constitution, so you can’t fool around...

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

Has no one done my son a service and assassinated you yet?" "No assassins yet," Wit said, amused. "I guess I've already got too much ass sass of my own."..."Oh really, Wit" she said. "I thought that kind of humour was beneath you." "So are you techni...

The Way of Kings

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary in...

You Are Not a Gadget

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—ther...

Jean Baudrillard

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic p...

David Pearce

Narrator: No, you have a house. Tyler Durden: Rented in your name. Narrator: You have jobs! You have a whole life! Tyler Durden: You have night jobs because you can't sleep. Why do you stay up and make soap? Narrator: Marla. You're fucking Marla, Tyl...

Fight Club

Mike Erganian: What is the subject of your book? Non fiction? Miles Raymond: Uh, no. It's... it's a novel. Fiction. Yes. Although there is quite a bit from my own life... so I suppose that, technically some of it is nonfiction. Mike Erganian: Good I ...

Sideways

Lord Farquaad: Mirror, mirror, on the wall / Is this not the most perfect kingdom of them all? Magic Mirror: Well, technically, you're not a king. Lord Farquaad: Ah, Thelonius? [Thelonius the Executioner smashes a small looking glass] Lord Farquaad: ...

Shrek

I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and Thirties like a fish falling into water. She was, in some ways, a deeply flawed human being, and perhaps she makes a strange kind of he...

Terri Windling

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

Cease and Desist

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Critique of Pure Reason

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

Drink Deep

A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

The Hand of Ethelberta

Education is the use of knowledge which brings about development and impact many lives

Beautiful Quotes

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

The Secret Knowledge

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

My Mother: Demonology

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

Night Film