Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly… — John Searle Copy Share Image
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed;… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"? — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the… — Daniel Simon Copy Share Image
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine? — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm… — Pat Bowlen Copy Share Image
Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal… — Ben Rattray Copy Share Image
It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly. — William Weld Copy Share Image
We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet. — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
