I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
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I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it;… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
I'm just a different machine than I used to be, where now I've taken my diet more serious than I ever have… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people,… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to… — Pontus Hulten Copy Share Image
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
For the second album, 'Discovery,' when we had to think about doing a live show I think we were not happy with… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
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