There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Theres one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
“We didn’t sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn’t sit around… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our… — Gary Marcus Copy Share Image
“The creation groans from all the pain and sorrow that surrounds us. We have a strong sense that life is not the… — Craig Detweiler Copy Share Image
“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“PICTURE A CREAM-COLORED couch. Now visualize one brooding dark-haired sex machine (I’m assuming, but I have a strong feeling about this) sitting… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum… — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
“I found one observation that is people are just stuck in technology and they just want to sit next to the computer… — Abhinav Rajput Copy Share Image
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a… — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
“Her life, he saw, was without meaning. To what purpose was her diplomacy, her insincerity, her continued repression of vigour? Did they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In his book A WHOLE NEW MIND, Daniel Pink describes how the forces of automation, outsourcing, and an overabundance of products are… — Srinivas Rao Copy Share Image
“people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have… — Hank Moody Copy Share Image
“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“My father's boots went ahead. His boots were to me as unique and familiar, as much an index to himself, as his… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight -… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“A moth is such a simple machine in the animal world - the go-kart to the modern car - and it takes… — Poppy Adams Copy Share Image
Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“I took a walk from Friedrichstrasse Station. That appears to be the train station from which I left in 1983 and in… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and… — S. S. Wilson Copy Share Image