Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“I was a part of the propaganda machine. I realized this right away. As Enas and I drove around with a cameraman,… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Then the machine started to reel off infant-mortality rates and life-expectancy figures, sex ratios, types of diseases and their prevalence in the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become aggressive, you fight, you… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once,… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“Old and alone, thought Pelletier. Just one of thousands of old men on their own. Like the machine célibataire. Like the bachelor… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“A stream of symbols appears at the same location on a computer screen. Most of the symbols are digits, but some are… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement… — Myron Tribus Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
“I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and… — Holly A. Smith Copy Share Image
Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence.… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built… — David Crane Copy Share Image
Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment… — Will Wright Copy Share Image
“Your grandma always was an advocate of thorough preparedness. She would strongly advise staying not only armed to the teeth, but well… — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
“My feeling toward Republicans is like my feeling about sharks: of course they're stupid and vicious. It's in their nature to be… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was:… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
“Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I've tried to say, 'Look, we are all crappy superheroes,' because personal computers and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“PC makers put crapware on their computers—antivirus software, subscription offers, and so on—precisely because the revenue is lucrative. Apple forgoes such opportunities… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“She never answers during the day," Max explained. "She lets her machine pick up." People like you are the reason other people… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“The housing stock along the broad Edinburgh Road was a linear map of a century of social housing, from scrubby squares of… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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