Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice… — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
The Internet of Things tell us that a lot of computer-enabled appliances and devices are going to become part of this system,… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
“In one study, participants were primed with high-achievement words (related to winning, excellence, etc.) flashed on a computer screen. Each word appeared… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“And then there was punishment. Hundreds of machines were being used not just by police forces and homicide detectives for investigative purposes… — Scott J. Holliday Copy Share Image
your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many… — José Antonio Bowen Copy Share Image
Now there is tons of information available online. 90% of students rarely look at magazines in their intended format because they're looking… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Similarly, you might argue that today’s humans should count as Life 2.1: we can perform minor hardware upgrades such as implanting artificial… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Stories are like DNA, they shape the culture that they’re a part of. A society is not a society without its own… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice.… — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr Copy Share Image
Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“know about the brain's hardware and software. How does the firing of a nerve or a series of nerves get translated into… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“[T]he prime purpose of the occupation was not to take land or push people from their homes. It did that too of… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Her team had become NASA’s first computer programmers. The women still worked closely with the engineers, almost all of whom were men,… — Nathalia Holt Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
“software-based. Hardware-based sensors are physical components built into a handset or tablet device. They derive their data by directly measuring specific environmental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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