Now Equilibrium Is The Very Opposite Of

What, Then, Is The Basic Difference Between Today's Computer And An Intelligent Being? It Is That The Computer Can Be Made To Seebut Not To Perceive. What Matters Here Is Not That The Computer Is Without Consciousness But That Thus Far It Is Incapable Of The Spontaneous Grasp Of Pattern--a Capacity Essential To Perception And Intelligence.

It Would Be Most Wholesome If For At Least Twenty Years Art Historians Were Forbidden To Refer To Any Derivations. If They Were Not Allowed To Account For A Work Of Art Mainly By Tracing Where It Comes From, They Would Have To Deal With It In And By Itself--which Is What They Are Most Needed For.

The Foreign Accent Was A Promise, And Indeed, All Over The Country, European Imports Added Spice To The Sciences, The Arts, And Other Areas. What One Had To Give Was Not Considered Inferior To What One Received.

The Ambition Of Instantaneous Photography... Was That Of Preserving The Spontaneity Of Action And Avoiding Any Indication That The Presence Of The Picture Taker Had A Modifying Influence On What Was Going On.

The More Perfect Our Means Of Direct Experience, The More Easily We Are Caught By The Dangerous Illusion That Perceiving Is Tantamount To Knowing And Understanding.