If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it... — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All was still: dark crawlers with their frozen treads, bulldozers motionless as boulders, backhoes with bent necks and sleeping hearts and shove-mouth… — Josh Weil Copy Share Image
About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
“Why do you assume I'm human? I wasn't born; I was created just like this. First I was an idea. Then I… — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
“Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're… — Richard Dawson Copy Share Image
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
