In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not… — Fady Joudah 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
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets… — Alvin C. York Copy Share Image
“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
