All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum… — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
Until you recognize the need, the absolute requirement for taking responsibility, you will not succeed. Once you do accept the responsibility, however,… — Pete Egoscue Copy Share Image
Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about.… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves,… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I'll cab it home." "Naw. I'll hang until you're through. Then I'll drag you back to your apartment. Watch you throw up… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin… — Julia Voth Copy Share Image
I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image