It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Wendell Berry warned, “It is easy . . . to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
Circuit training is doing repeated exercises on machines without rest. It tones the sagging skin when one starts to lose weight fast. — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different,… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine,… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
Our bodies are finely tuned machines, and if our hormone mixtures aren't 'just right', everything goes into disrepair. — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan,… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.… — Jim Carroll 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
I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“Most organisations, when they would dream of the exaltations of the present, roll their eyes backward. The International Business Machines Corporation has… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth… — Elizabeth Arden Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the… — Herbert Copy Share Image
“In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him.… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The… — Malcolm Campbell Copy Share Image
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole,… — Sergei Shipov Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I love Sylvan Esso. I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
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