The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote:… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a… — Bill Janklow Copy Share Image
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you… — Tod Machover 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
That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what… — Tiffany Villarreal Copy Share Image
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture… — Questlove Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values,… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we… — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can… — Neil Harbisson Copy Share Image
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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