Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a… — Paul McEuen Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Positive attitude enables you to go with passion and see possibility in every challenging circumstance. It was by that, that great achievers… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I now suspect that if we work with machines the world will seem to us to be a machine, but if we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. — Eileen Gray Copy Share Image
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