“I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.” TurnsConsciousMachinesBoxesBuyingGearsCollectorsVintageAnalog Author:Martin Gore
“Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.” YearsMadeTwoSelfHomeAgeTypeTenConsciousHollywoodMachinesReputationLos AngelesBeardNursingSelf ConsciousStridePropheticShortsHermitsSandalsBoulevardMuttering Book:Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses Source: Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses
“We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.” IfsMenMatterHumanityDealsDestinyBloodColdConsciousMachinesRhythmIndifferenceMechanicProceduresDominanceMonstrosity Author:Rudolf Rocker
“You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.” KnowsWorldHas BeensEyePastSpiritCausesRaceFateDangerProjectsConsciousMachinesSafetyWideDuesSpeedAccidentsHeightAviationImaginativeAdventurousLurkingPioneeringEyes Wide OpenPioneering Spirit Author:John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
“I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.” IfsGivingUsedConsciousMachinesDollarsHonestly Author:Stuart J. Russell
“If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.” IfsHumansStillsMatterLostHuman BeingsDecisionConsciousnessQualityLosingConsciousMachinesDecision MakingSingularity Author:Stuart J. Russell
“No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light spaceship.” LightConsciousMachinesFasterClueSpaceships Author:Stuart J. Russell
“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.” FeelsWellsFactsPainJoyAnimalEmotionSadnessLonelinessFieldsEmotionalAnxietyCapableConsciousTestsMachinesIntelligentLongingSurpriseIncludingWideConclusionObservationRangeReliefContentmentPanicEmbarrassmentLaboratoryPhysical PainContentment And PeaceRange Of Emotions Author:Sharon Gannon
“White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.” IndividualBeliefWhiteDemandConsciousMachinesInvestmentDrivingUnconsciousInherentInferiorsSuperiorityParticipationWhite SupremacySupremacyBigots Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.” ThinkingMenGivingFeelsBodyRunningAgeFormProcessForeverRevolutionPureConsciousMachinesWeightSpeedFacultyEcstasyRunnersExhaustionDelegatesBlisters Author:Milan Kundera
“All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.” PeopleWellsHas BeensMomentsBitsPrayerSimpleMorningClearDyingStrangeActivityConsciousMachinesDressesDefenseDefinedDeliberateWashingHymnsIndecisionLinenMutteringSmall SimpleWell Oiled Machines Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.” ConsciousnessForeverImpossibleEventsStandardsConsciousMachinesDancingGenuineGhostPredictablePhantoms Author:Alan Moore