“The machine couldn’t be stopped and certainly shouldn’t be destroyed, the wizard said. Destroying the machine might well cause this universe to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Thinking back to old-time computer programming in the days before programming languages supported internationalization, we used to have to “internationalize” our code.… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Target for example, is just a dot with a circle around it, that's all it is, so if you want a logo… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
“I had, of course, witnessed hundreds of people in a casino before, mindlessly dropping coins into slot machines. They don't play for… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories… — Kristie LeVangie Copy Share Image
I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
I don't use any real vintage hardware any longer. That's always been the object as far as gaining control of the studio… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“Some days, I was instructed not to pick up the phone at all. I would take down the messages left on the… — S.E. Anderson Copy Share Image
Well yoy did it,"I congratulated Patch. "I´m as trained as I´ll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“He turned them into real-life versions of an M. C. Escher drawing, automating them to the rafters, with blinking lights on aisles… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Control, no. This place—I simply do not understand it. The humans here wear giant cocktail glasses around their necks and insert exorbitant… — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff Copy Share Image
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Don’t assume that people will see something on a computer screen just because it’s there. This is especially true when you refresh… — Susan M. Weinschenk Copy Share Image
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“The man behind the divan stood up, the machine pistol quivering in his grasp. There was a flash, Abigail thinking he’d pulled… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I… — Carlos Delgado Copy Share Image
“No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to… — ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However,… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
“The emergent properties of my computer have existence not because they inhere in the component parts that compose them. They do so… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“IN 1984, journalist Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicled the scruffy subculture that had not only created… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of the progress in machine learning - and this is an unpopular opinion in academia - is driven by an… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer,… — Logic Copy Share Image
