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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.
Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy
The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.
I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.
I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.
Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.
I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.
As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
Circuit training is doing repeated exercises on machines without rest. It tones the sagging skin when one starts to lose weight fast.