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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
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This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
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I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes,… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
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I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
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[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
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