I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. — Christo Copy Share Image
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit,… — John Otto Copy Share Image
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China]. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
I don't like the chip, chip, chip of working on little things. I love big machines and big bits of stone. — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes -… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat — John McNulty Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next… — Dov Seidman Copy Share Image
I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting. — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each,… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image