"The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine."

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Sherry Turkle

#Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Psychology Quotes

“The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.16
“All the other covenants show Godâ€™s love and transmit Godâ€™s love, but it is only in the marital covenant that the love is so real and powerful that it communicates life.”
“The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.”

Source : "Special Report's Contrasting Previews Of The King And Durbin Hearings On American Muslims" by Brian Powell, www.mediamatters.org. March 29, 2011.
“I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.”
“No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.”
“I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.”
“I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.”
“I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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