Mental Map Quotes

“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns
that perpetuate themselves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

“Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.”
― Lynn Margulis, Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round . . . The sky is round and I have heard the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power whirls, birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds. And they were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop.”
― Chief Black Elk

“Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhere
is felt everywhere.”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“SEE what you think.”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”
― Edward Tufte