Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote:… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The hollowing out of the middle class. That's not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done.… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We barely had cell phones on '90210.' It started in the '90s. That's pretty much when fax machines came into play. When… — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
“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
[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
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
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflects us, it's the one thing… — Gray Scott Copy Share Image
What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that… — Tucker Viemeister Copy Share Image
How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
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