How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If… — Avi Rubin Copy Share Image
It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines,… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Once cyber crosses into the realm of the physical, then it's a physical attack, but it starts with cyber. And the idea… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened… — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend!… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them. — D. C. Fontana Copy Share Image
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill.… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution. — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real… — Friedrich L. Bauer Copy Share Image
A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work... — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
People sometimes complain and it can feel like they think we want to lose. We're not machines where one plus one is… — Lucas Vazquez Copy Share Image
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
