The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about… — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that… — Werner J. A. Dahm Copy Share Image
“Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
When we first started Fear factory, we asked ourselves what Fear Factory means, it was a cool name, but what did it… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore.… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Humans have only so many 'irreplaceable' skills, and the idea that we'll just keep outrunning the machines, skill-wise, is a folly. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I now value everyday functionality like walking, talking and breathing on your own with no assistance from a medical professional or machines.… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
“When a machine does a mistake, it’s not a mistake, something is wrong. When human do mistakes, it is a mistake, but… — Zisha Schnitzler Copy Share Image
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image