#symbol

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#hate #i #just #sex #sex symbol

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#fact #inner #inner life #interruption #life

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#absolute truth #another #nowhere #relations #symbols

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#continually #images #parcel #part #personality

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bell #implies #interference #other #people

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#being #british #country #definitely #english

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#always #debussy #different #direction #followed

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #being #christians #commandments #foundation

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol