Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I love breasts. I love the female shape. It's crazy - you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but,… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
I did voice work for many years before I started having success as an actress. It was mostly radio and television voiceover… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas Copy Share Image
It's hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we'll become less powerful. But it'll be healthier for the planet and for… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said;… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
I absolutely love my daily driver Ford Raptor, especially since I live out here in the mountains of Park City, so to… — Ken Block Copy Share Image
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting'… — Nadia Abu El Haj Copy Share Image
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
You can crank out Bitcoins on a PC, but it's an incredibly computer-intensive task, and it will keep getting harder as the… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines. — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
