“Never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This is… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Im reminded of Orville Tethington, inventor of the worlds first steam-powered fog machine. Hes also the guy who, after the Germans invented… — â Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard,… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“and it was surely the case also that only machines built to so large a scale and of such pristine alloys could… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines. — Julie Doucet Copy Share Image
I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs. — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
“Listen, you machine,” he said, “you claim you can synthesize any drink in existence, so why do you keep giving me the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. — Moby Copy Share Image
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you. — Tom Clancy 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
“He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big… — Henry S.F. Cooper Jr Copy Share Image
We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“In no sense are the robot dogs, automated vacuum cleaners and old-folks lifting machines just examples of yet another consumer society with… — Our Man in Abiko Copy Share Image
“Young, lavishly bearded tech entrepreneurs were trudging forlornly down the hallways, laden with computers, printers, high-end coffeemakers, and foosball tables. Like digital… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
To live life, you kids might just close your computer. The street lights might blind you. — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by… — Thomas Keller 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
Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer,… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
