Machine Quotes

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In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme… — Luigi Russolo
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein
I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a… — Duncan Sheik
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr.
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,… — Ben Lerner
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now… — Marcia Angell
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love')… — A. O. Scott
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon
The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its… — Tucker Viemeister
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good… — Michael Graves
The economy is like a machine. — Ray Dalio
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how… — Philip Emeagwali
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine. — Philip Emeagwali
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing. — Ba Jin
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product… — Bill Gaede
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold. — Avi Rubin
I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to… — Avi Rubin
Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not… — Ina May Gaskin
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest â€“ we are on war… — Wayne Muller

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