I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash,… — David Autor Copy Share Image
The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed… — Chester Carlson Copy Share Image
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first… — Mike Wilson Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is… — Clifton B. Cates Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator…"I have two like crimes. Your data and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world… — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ...… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
So, think about how you use a disc that you own of an Xbox 360 game. If I buy the disc from… — Larry Hryb Copy Share Image
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked… — Robert Strausz-Hupe Copy Share Image
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