With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“It’s not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago.” Wait: “Yes we do.” “We have the same… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Yes, we like to think of our children as Macintosh computers operating in a world full of PCs; they get the same… — Gina Gallagher Copy Share Image
“These beings, with soaring imagination, eventually flung themselves and their machines into interplanetary space.” — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already,… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
There are certain things I am clueless about as far as the new technologies. I see these people in front of these… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
“His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, tragic, and laughable. But the sacred part of him, his awareness, remained… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization….one must explain the culture that was ready to use them and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Data show that the more patients actually know, the less they want of our treatments at the end of life. A study… — Jessica Nutik Zitter Copy Share Image
“Man versus himself. Man versus machine. Man versus the world. Mankind versus me. The struggles go on, The wisdom I lack, The… — Five Iron Frenzy Copy Share Image
I, for one, am not nearly as engaged when I'm looking at something that's been completely drawn up on a computer that… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
I don't sit for six hours a day in front of a computer or console like I used to. I like to… — Krzysztof Piatek Copy Share Image
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. — Moby Copy Share Image
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
“There’s a naked woman on the phone for you,” Orafoura said. ”Have my clone get it,” I said. “I’m having a conversation with… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good… — Prince Copy Share Image
Cristiano Ronaldo is sensational, a very good professional, an incredible goalscoring machine for many years, but Messi is the most complete player… — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“That computer is my rabbit hole; the internet is my wonderland. I am only allowed to fall into it when it doesn’t… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
With 'Scratch,' we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer. — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Labor automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a devastating impact on the already struggling Chinese economy.” — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd… — Rupert Giles Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the… — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
Online it is much more important to have good quick instincts and the nature of opening preparations changes too, as there is… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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