Date: Summer, 1991
"Elinor has constructed herself in this way around an original lack: the absentation of her sister, and perhaps in the first place the withholding from herself of the love of their mother, whom she then compulsively unites with Marianne, the favorite, in the love-drenched tableaux of her imaginat...
preview | full record— Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1950-2009)
Date: Summer, 1991
"Elinor's pupils, those less tractable sphincters of the soul, won't close against the hapless hemorrhaging of her visual attention-flow toward Marianne; it is this, indeed, that renders her consciousness, in turn, habitable, inviting, and formative to readers as 'point-of-view.'"
preview | full record— Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1950-2009)
Date: 1993
"Your mind, I tell graduates, is a lot like a parachute--it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it."
preview | full record— Crowe, William J. (1925-2007)
Date: May 23, 1993
"'Your mind,' Admiral Crowe likes to tell university students, 'is a lot like a parachute -- it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it.'"
preview | full record— Rosenberg, David Alan
Date: November 8, 1994
"I thought this is some terrific computer down here."
preview | full record— Blakeslee, Sandra
Date: February 8, 1996
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)
Date: February 8, 1996
"These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)
Date: February 8, 1996
"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace."
preview | full record— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)
Date: 1998
"Jennifer Tilly plays Violet, a mob wife, prostitute, and femme with a steel-trap mind, and Gina Gershon plays Corky, Violet's ex-con lover."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: 1999
"Thus, in psychology, the computer serves as a model of the mind as conceived by empiricists such as Hume (with the bits as atomic impressions) and idealists such as Kant (with the program providing the rules)."
preview | full record— Dreyfus, Hubert L. (b. 1929)