My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I… — Mike Duke Copy Share Image
Happy life with the machines scattered around the room. Look what they made; they made it for me... happy technology! — DJstanford Copy Share Image
We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China]. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in… — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it.… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets… — Alvin C. York Copy Share Image
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind.… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests,… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was in Las Vegas, playing on the fruit machines. I was only 20 at the time and I won the jackpot… — Adrian Lewis Copy Share Image
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. — Moondog Copy Share Image
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image