Shirley MacLaine Quotes

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

Beauty can never really understand itself.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world