Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early… — Barry Ptolemy Copy Share Image
“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He felt like a broken machine himself — like someone had removed one little part of him, and now he’d never be… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee , and I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But… — Steve Mann Copy Share Image
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“If you were running away from me, down a straight hallway with an oiled hardwood floor, and I had a machine gun… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
A machine helps us to annihilate our weaknesses. We don't have a steady hand. We can lose all vigilance. We can be… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
“Cope’s bot can string together notes that weave in and out with the power of Beethoven or the finesse of Mozart. That… — Christopher Steiner Copy Share Image
“However, what appears to be efficient to individual companies along the stream—for example, purchase of one of the world’s fastest canning machines,… — James P. Womack Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
The first step in mobility was about letting people speak to each other; then, through 3G and 4G, we saw real connectivity… — Borje Ekholm Copy Share Image
“Scott goes to the computer and loads a chart that says something about global warming. Scott says, "See?" Judy says, "I don't… — Ellen Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Nell's husband has short-man syndrome. Eddie is one of those deadly dull people who is so upbeat that I suspect he would… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“YOUR CAPACITY IS LIMITED The challenge is that the demand in our lives increasingly exceeds our capacity. Think of capacity as the… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge… Well, allow me to introduce myself to you… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“If some day we build machine brains that surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful.… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer,… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I'm always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can't always turn the… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
“This is called a piqué machine, it sews that finest stitch, called piqué, requires far more skill than the other stitches… This… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and… — Sara Paxton Copy Share Image
“Outside in the yard, the rusted tractors and car bodies, the harvester combs and the sheets of corrugated iron, the motors and… — Paddy O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
“Get down! Get down!" The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. The survivors, instead… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“From millions of sources all over the globe, through every possible channel and medium—light waves, airwaves, ticker tapes, computer banks, telephone wires,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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