The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. – Alan Kay
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. – Gertrude Stein
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. – Henri Matisse
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. – Charles Baudelaire
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. – Bodhidharma
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. – Billy Corgan
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. – Newt Gingrich
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. – Marquis de Sade
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. – Adlai E. Stevenson
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. – Archibald Alexander
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. – Bodhidharma
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. – William Lyon Phelps
There is a great deal of human nature in man. – Charles Kingsley
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. – Herbert Read
