“As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.” WayWantTryingForceEffortSupportProduceApproachMachinesBlindVotingVotersBlindnessTrailsBetter WaysCountyPaperless Author:David Dixon
“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.” WayMayDifferentProblemInspirationAnimalPrinciplesStudyDesignMaterialsApproachDrawsMachinesWingsFlyingDevicesArtificial IntelligenceArtificialEngineersConstructsAssemblyMisledFlappingFlying Machines Author:Maurice Wilkes
“My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.” WayBodySimplePrinciplesCarApproachMachinesComplicatedStraightforwardMaintenance Author:Aubrey de Grey
“The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.” PassionStudyApproachMachinesQuittingRuinsMiserableProportionLasting Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.” ThinkingWayGivingTryingWellsKindHas BeensSometimesDoneJobsLanguageForceDangerousInternetComputerApproachToolsMachinesOppositesArmyOne WayShopsWay Of ThinkingComputer LanguageSwissPerlChainsawMachine Shop Author:Larry Wall
“Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with and combine ourselves with machines and machinery and electronics - those will all be opt-in moments. Would you choose to have some sort of brain implant? Would you choose to have Google Glasses installed in your eyes? It's all an approach; it's all a glide path to the moment of genuine singularity; genuine artificial intelligence.” HumansMomentsEyeOpportunityHuman BeingsBrainPathApproachDrawsMachinesGlassesGenuineArtificial IntelligenceYou ChooseArtificialGoogleMachineryScenariosSingularityInterfacesElectronicsImplantsGoogle Glass Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.” HelpingUseTechnologyApproachMachinesMajorityThreatAlternativesTravelerUnitsAirportsConcealedPassengersScreeningDeploymentMetallicImaging Author:Janet Napolitano
“The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.” MadeResultsSeriousApproachPhotographyGunMachinesBe GoodMachine Guns Author:Ansel Adams
“In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.” DifferentDoneCharacterAsksEmotionAudienceLaughingCryApproachEmpathyMachinesRegardMajorityConclusionCinemaFrightenedRelievedHitchcockDifferent Approach Book:The Great Movies II Source: The Great Movies II