Date: 1992
"Surely the mind is not just a faculty: it is an immaterial and private world, the locus of our secret thoughts, the auditorium of our interior monologues, the theatre in which our dreams are staged and our plans rehearsed."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
Date: 1992
"Now it would be folly to deny that human beings can keep their thoughts secret, can talk to themselves without making any noise, can sketch figures before their mind's eye instead of on pieces of paper."
preview | full record— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
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: 1995
"In what way is the mind like a computer that is different from its resemblance, for example, to a telephone switchboard (which was the most popular image in psychology some years ago), or to a cathedral, which once long ago was also a major poetical image (consider: the caverns of the mind, the ...
preview | full record— Shipley, Thorne (1927-2009)
Date: July 23, 1995
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
preview | full record— Smith, Chuck
Date: 1995, 2002
"However, as I said last night, we just ask for this because most of us consider ourselves as chauffeurs inside our bodies, which we own in the same way as we own a car. When it goes wrong we take it to the mechanic to fix it and we do not really identify with our body, just as we do not really i...
preview | full record— Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
Date: 1996
"One would expect, then, that such a political period would be rife with various veins of pseudo-mysticism, enamoured of whatever gives the slip to the concept, enthralled by those spasms of mind which confound its customary distinctions, which breed in us some ecstatic state of indeterminacy in ...
preview | full record— Eagleton, Terry (b. 1943)
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)