Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ...… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first… — Mike Wilson Copy Share Image
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed… — Chester Carlson Copy Share Image
Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash,… — David Autor Copy Share Image
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator…"I have two like crimes. Your data and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is… — Clifton B. Cates Copy Share Image
I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
“Since we crave reliable partnership and emotional reciprocity, we project human qualities onto machines and treat them as if they share our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products:… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone… — A. O. Scott 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
Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is… — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the… — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder.… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
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