“PICTURE A CREAM-COLORED couch. Now visualize one brooding dark-haired sex machine (I’m assuming, but I have a strong feeling about this) sitting… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The creation groans from all the pain and sorrow that surrounds us. We have a strong sense that life is not the… — Craig Detweiler 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
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco 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
In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight -… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“A moth is such a simple machine in the animal world - the go-kart to the modern car - and it takes… — Poppy Adams Copy Share Image
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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
“Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results,… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“The bank - or the Company - needs - wants -insists - must have - as though the bank or the Company… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Radios, vacuum tubes, transistors, televisions, solar cells, coaxial cables, laser beams, microprocessors, computers, cell phones, fiber optics—all these essential tools of modern… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson 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
Computer is filled with hundreds of projects... Thousand lines of code is written... Many lines still to come... but you can't remember… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach 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
“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“He pushed away from the computer and pressed his chest against my back, wrapping me in his arms. “I love that you… — Devney Perry Copy Share Image
I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they… — Jeremy Stoppelman 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
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product… — John Shadegg 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
“At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game… — Brad Stone 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
I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
![“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/885/richard-dawkins-115_computers_science-works-planes-fly-cars-drive-comp_561441.jpg)
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