“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.” ChildrenFatherBitsBrokenBedMachinesBoxesToysElectricMotorUseful ThingsElectric Motors Author:Nick Park
“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
“Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.” WayWellsCertainSoundEffectsMachinesBoxesTapeLoadBumpsSaturation Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.” HomeMachinesBoxesSpeedTime MachineCardboard Boxes Author:Demetri Martin
“You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's just me. That seems to be an endlessly challenging and interesting way to live.” ThinkingWaySeemsGirlChallengesInterestingMachinesBlueBoxesLoadWashingWay To LiveContinuumInteresting WaysWashing Machines Author:Laurie Foos
“I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.” MachinesBoxesLazySoftwareEquipmentPlugsSynthesizers Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson
“We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.” YoungNextMachinesBoxesBoredTherapyStairsHoover Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?” KnowsUseHumorFunnyTurnsGamesKnow HowCarComputerMachinesBoxesTurn-onMicrosoftNew CarAtmMicroprocessor Author:Scott McNealy
“Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.” MenWorldWantGivingUseScienceGivenHe ManToolsMachinesAccountsMiracleBoxesMiraculousHumane Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“The special effects team designed everything, which basically allowed me to stand on a green box and look and stay relatively expressionless and all these machines did the acting for me. Just the way I like it (laughs)” WayLooksFunnyActingLaughingTeamSpecialEffectsMachinesGreenBoxesSpecial Effects Author:Robert Pattinson