I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us…"… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know?… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch,… — Beck Copy Share Image
If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop.… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
“What was remarkable was that associating with a computer and electronics company was the best way for a rock band to seem… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When you and I go to work, and we use a computer to work and find that our work apps are completely… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We have entered the Age of Light. The ages of steam and coal are long gone. With oil clinging to power, light… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the… — Elizabeth West Copy Share Image
I think that, hundreds of years from now, if people invent a technology that we haven't heard of yet, maybe a computer… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“The problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to… — Pontus Hulten Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There… — Jon Appleton Copy Share Image
Typical tech-driven companies or hardware-driven companies always lay out the so-called roadmaps when it comes to making the new hardware. So, in… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
“These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image