Arturo Rosenblueth quotes

Arturo Rosenblueth quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat.”
-- Arturo Rosenblueth

#Cat Quotes #Models Quotes
“The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.”
-- Arturo Rosenblueth

#Metaphor Quotes #Vigilance Quotes

“It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.”
“the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.”
“This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.”
“For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.”
“I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.”
“With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.”
“I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.”
“I swear I want to be a food model.”
“Art takes nature as its model.”
“Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.”

Source : "On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid". Interview with Liz Mineo, news.harvard.edu. August 24, 2017.

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