“Muir wrote of time not in the wilderness: “I am degenerating into a machine for making money.” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“What would these young kids do if they didn't have a computer? They wouldn't find their way around the own back pockets… — Tina Folsom Copy Share Image
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine,… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
“Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet." "Gourmet? From your cooking?" He pushed aside… — Kristin Miller Copy Share Image
“My computer set-up is crazy. I have wireless set up on my iMac, aimed at a router, which itself is perfectly angled… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight” — Farahad Zama Copy Share Image
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
“I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me. And I had to know. Once again, I crawled away from… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“We should do something,” I said. “Can the something be play blind-guy video games while sitting on the couch?” “Yeah, that’s just… — John Green Copy Share Image
Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I had so much fun writing this book. I could hardly wait for morning to come so I could get back to… — Gladys L. Hargis Copy Share Image
“People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I have a computer, a vibrator, & pizza delivery. Why should I leave the house? — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers. — Justin Long Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
“A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
“For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother,… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“Maybe even sadder is the willingness to give your whole life producing items of no social benefit, or even destructive, like slot… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I was a part of the propaganda machine. I realized this right away. As Enas and I drove around with a cameraman,… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to… — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
That moment when you forgot your password and computer driving you insane when network fail. Computer says No! — Bel Claveria Carig Martinez Copy Share Image
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a… — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
