Machines Quotes - Page 28

You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.

The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.