Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
“A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines. — Julie Doucet Copy Share Image
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once,… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational… — Raymond E. Fowler Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'.… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time… — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Together, you’ve got a kingdom. If you have a Corvette, you don’t put water in the… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image