Edwin Hutchins quotes

Edwin Hutchins quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers”
-- Edwin Hutchins

Source : Edwin Hutchins (1995). “Cognition in the Wild”, p.169, MIT Press

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“My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.”
“You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.”
“Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.”
“I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!”
“Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.”
“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”
“Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”
“I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.”
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

Source : "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.
“Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.”

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