Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge… Well, allow me to introduce myself to you… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces” — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver… — David McCord Copy Share Image
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to… — Donna Summer Copy Share Image
The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I… — Feist Copy Share Image
You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money. — Bill Janklow Copy Share Image
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image