For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that. — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every living creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. it amuses them that so many… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a… — Diana DeGarmo Copy Share Image
For me, I don't think there's anything more human than technology. That's a big thing separating us from other animals: we make… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence,… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting. — Matt Tong Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image