“The offices were like a national holding center for the trainably banal, occupied by people who decorated their cubicles with quilted, heart-shaped… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Motocross might be more dangerous because it's hard to tame the machine sometimes. Wrestling, you're dealing with yourself and your own body,… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every little word, and he's not massaging it.… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“At a very rough estimate, the domino computer we built took six hours to set up and run, which means it could… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“The late Mr. David Hume , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason;… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“But now, to deny the change requires a wilful ignorance since, if you observe bodies clothed in steel flowing over highways, or… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
“Now, in the academy, you cannot just say anything about male theory. You have to proceed with an immanent critique, that is… — Somer Brodribb Copy Share Image
“Marcus couldn’t believe it. Dead. A dead duck. OK, he'd been trying to hit it on the head with a piece of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What the hell?” Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet,… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
“What is the future going to be like, then?' 'Hey, it's gonna be a gas,' Scape assured me. 'If you're into machines… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive… Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“To what extent the machine abases us. - The machine is impersonal, it deprives the piece of work of its pride, of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Kate wondered what an alien would make of the scene. Dozens of people sitting in isolation in front of computers, not speaking… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“He probably hadn't written it. I knew that. I certainly hadn't written mine. But after yesterday, his pompous sneer was permanently imprinted… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for… — Beck Copy Share Image
“The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll… — Lin Pardey Copy Share Image
For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest… — Mark Weiser Copy Share Image
The fact that biological, or atural rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly,… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
“After dinner the babies get fussy and Min puts a mush of ice cream and Hershey's syrup in their bottles and we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war," EPICAC had written after Pat's and my… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image