Andy Clark > Quotes

“Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.”
― Andy Clark

“Perception is controlled hallucination.”
― Andy Clark

“Rather darkness than the illumination of the unclean.”
― Andy Clark, Celestine: The Living Saint

“Yet Sigmar has a plan for all of us, she thought as her knees buckled and she fell painfully to the unforgiving stone. Her temple struck the ground and the world spun. She felt tears prick her eyes. She reas oned there was no sense holding them in any longer. Leif wouldn’t see, and if somehow he did, well, he would understand. He was her brother, after all. Sigmar has a plan for us all, and my part was to come as far as I have come, she thought as she listened to the howl of the wind and the creak of the trees.”
― Andy Clark, Stormvault

“knowing”
― Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

“The Emperor protects.'
'So does ferrocrete, ma'am.'

"Celestine: The Living Saint”
― Andy Clark

“When inner guessing completely rules the roost, we are just hallucinating, full stop. But when it is appropriately sensitive to sensory stimulations—via prediction error signals—the guessing is controlled, and the world becomes known to the mind.”
― Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

“This means that we can, at times, change how we feel by changing what we (consciously or unconsciously) predict.”
― Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

“I have taken power where once I had none,’ she said proudly. ‘I walk unmasked where they cannot, endure what they cannot. I do so in finery when they knew me in rags. All that I am I have taken for myself, through blood and sacrifice. I was born into stagnation and became change.”
― Andy Clark