Date: 1984
"That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"I suppose people--certainly imaginative writers--who consciously exploit their own obsessions do so in part because those obsessions lie like stepping-stones in front of them, and their feet are drawn towards them."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"At any given time, I'm aware that my mind and imagination are setting towards a particular compass point, that the whole edifice is preparing itself to lean in one way, like a great ramshackle barn."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"Yes, if I'm not working, I talk over ideas to myself on the machine, by which I mean I type out little ideas, let my mind wander."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable points, and more than equal to any physical rearrangement of the brain's functions."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: September 29, 1985
"My father used to say, 'Your mind is like a parachute. If it won't open when you need it, it is not much good.' I have an open mind."
preview | full record— Wilson, George C.
Date: 1986
"On the view of imagery I am sketching, the imagination systematically misinterprets in the interests of interior cinema."
preview | full record— Skulsky, Harold
Date: 1988
"Most of the mind is not a computer: most mental processes are not computations."
preview | full record— Mellor, D. H. (b. 1938)
Date: 1989
"When the cat hears the doorbell, this must be something going on, literally, in its head, not just in its furry little mind."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 1989
"Like trees similar in their gross physical profile, brains can be similar in their gross functional profiles while being highly idiosyncratic in the myriad details of their fine-grained arborization."
preview | full record— Churchland, Paul (b. 1942)