A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“Although not exceptional in ways we once believed, we remain exceptionally good at building tools and machines. And that includes machines that… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I… — Shigeru Miyamoto 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
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If people have ever been around a construction site at night, they'll see a bunch of lights on those machines, and some… — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image
Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done.… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Positive attitude enables you to go with passion and see possibility in every challenging circumstance. It was by that, that great achievers… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine… — Thomas Roberts 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
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We barely had cell phones on '90210.' It started in the '90s. That's pretty much when fax machines came into play. When… — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger,… — Ilona Andrews 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
What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflects us, it's the one thing… — Gray Scott Copy Share Image
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image