1. "The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man."
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Gilles Deleuze, What Is Philosophy?
2. "[O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information coming from [the environment], but transformed in the head into a form in which that information can be used. Wavelength differences in the light out there become coded as 'colour' differences in the computer model in the head. Shape and other attributes are encoded in the same kind of way, encoded into a form that is convenient to handle. The sensation of seeing is, for us, very different from the sensation of hearing, but this cannot be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound. Both light and sound are, after all, translated by the respective sense organs into the same kind of nerve impulses. It is impossible to tell, from the physical attributes of a nerve impulse, whether it is conveying information about light, about sound or about smell. The reason the sensation of seeing is so different from the sensation of hearing and the sensation of smelling is that the"
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Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
3. "Your look is visual currency."
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Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy
4. "Gifts are visual symbols of love."
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Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
5. "Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal"
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Quote by William H. Gass
7. "Visual information trumps the dialogue every time."
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Darryl Hickman, The Unconscious Actor®: Out of Control
8. "Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners."
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Tom DeMarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams
9. "How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art."
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Quote by Kermit the Frog
10. "If you summarily rule out any single sensation and do not make a distinction between the element of belief that is superimposed on a percept that awaits verification and what is actually present in sensation or in the feelings or some percept of the mind itself, you will cast doubt on all other sensations by your unfounded interpretation and consequently abandon all the criteria of truth. On the other hand, in cases of interpreted data, if you accept as true those that need verification as well as those that do not, you will still be in error, since the whole question at issue in every judgment of what is true or not true will be left intact."
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Epicurus, The Art of Happiness