Analogue Quotes

• It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Reality, Differences, Hands

  53 Copy quote

• Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

  Austin O'Malley

  Patience, Serenity

  53 Copy quote

• In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

  Martin Gardner

  Beautiful, Simple, Dull

  "Mathematical Games". Scientific American (October 1973), later quoted in Roger B. Nelson "Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking" ("Introduction", p. 5), 1993.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Self, Imagination

  52 Copy quote

• Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Goal, Long

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music Is

  "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, p. 27, 1953.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

  George Crumb

  Wind, Water, Bird

  11 Copy quote

• I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

  Billy Sherwood

  Luxury, Gears, Bills

  8 Copy quote

• Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

  Kenneth Burke

  Light, Principles, Purpose

  Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.2, Univ of California Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Unique, World

  Noam Chomsky (2006). “Language and Mind”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Analogue dollars for digital pennies.

  Jeff Zucker

  Dollars, Digital, Pennies

  "CNN's Transformation Says A Lot About What Is Working Today In Television". www.businessinsider.com. February 7, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cells, Hands, Two

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

  Adam Savage

  Technology, Always Trying, Goes On

  4 Copy quote

• I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

  J. J. Abrams

  Obsessed

  "JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes'" by Katie Puckrik, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of the people that I play with are electronic-based, so there isn't a direct physical analogue between what they're doing and the sound you're hearing.

  Z'EV

  Play, People, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

  Moby

  Gears, Machines, Buying

  4 Copy quote

• So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Men

  12 Copy quote

• The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

  4 Copy quote

• If we look at everybody's darling, China, there is an analogue called Taiwan that is inhabited by the Chinese as well. But the standard of living and of innovation of the Taiwanese economy cannot be compared with the Chinese growth rate.

  Garry Kasparov

  Innovation, Growth, Chinese

  Source: www.rferl.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and the insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate Semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parable therein.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Drama, Eye, Fire

  "Suttree". Book by Cormac McCarthy (p. 4), May 1979.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

  Thomas Merton

  Mystical Experiences, Perception, Artistic

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.

  Subb-an

  Kings, Mixing, Digital

  4 Copy quote

• All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Roots, Growth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.31

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Space, Boundaries, Metaphor

  4 Copy quote