“…even more ominous … is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. … he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals … A visual is more interested in style than in content … A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.”
The Aristos (1964)
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Chistopher Nolan and David Fincher featurette on Movieweb http://www.movieweb.com/movie/the-tree-of-life-2011/christopher-nolan-and-david-fincher-featurette

J. Hanks, trans. (1985), p. 210
The Humiliation of the Word (1981)

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
As quoted without citation in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24
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In 'The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism', 1926; trans. Howard Dearstyne [Dover, 2003, ISBN 0-486-42974-1], 'part II: Suprematism', p. 67
1921 - 1930

Re: Emacs inferior to XEmacs? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/msg/716a6bf5d03226a1 (Usenet article).
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Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 61

About what people thought her Archers character Debbie Aldridge looked like.
From an interview with the Telegraph, "Seriously funny."