Shlain Quotes

#1. We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them,

Tiffany Shlain

#2. If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#3. When the time comes to change a paradigm
to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another
the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Leonard Shlain

#4. The world is not a rational place.

Bette Greene

#5. It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.

Tiffany Shlain

#6. It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Leonard Shlain

#7. Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person.

Bill Engvall

#8. While technology has given us many opportunities we've never had before, it's also putting new kinds of stress in our lives.

Tiffany Shlain

#9. A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities.

Leonard Shlain

#10. Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns ... I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

Leonard Shlain

#11. Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

Leonard Shlain

#12. When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

William Gibson

#13. I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.

Leonard Shlain

#14. It is not fore nothing that you are named Ransom.

C.S. Lewis

#15. We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.

Leonard Shlain

#16. Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

Hayley Williams

#17. Imagine the potential of an emerging global brain.

Tiffany Shlain

#18. While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Leonard Shlain

#19. America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

Dan J. Stein

#20. It might if you were male, hanging upside down naked and got nervous, then whizzed all over yourself. Gravity is not your friend at that point. (Josie)
Eww. Save those tidbits for when you're in the men's room ... updating your contact information. (Terri)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

Leonard Shlain

#22. I ... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud ... Out here, everything was Jung.

Leonard Shlain

#23. Mace watched his beautiful sister. She took after their mother. He took after his father. And they got along about as well as that pair did.

Shelly Laurenston

#24. The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

Tiffany Shlain