“Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.” WayLooksFilmGuyCasesNew YorkClothesGunMachinesTheaterJazzSoldierErasViolinSailorColorfulGangstersNightclubsMachine Guns Author:Woody Allen
“The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.” WorldHumansFightingSidesPowerfulCasesMilitaryInvolvedMachinesSuicideTerrorismTerroristMost PowerfulPalestinianBoth SidesBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Ted Turner
“Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.” IfsDoneSocialCasesMachinesConnectedColleaguesCompetitorsNetworkingSocial NetworkGasolineHyperGreasePersonal Business Author:danah boyd
“The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.” GivingCoursesReadingVisionCasesDevelopmentResearchMachinesAimMapsTargetContinuingLinkedMissilesCruiseRadarDronesMoscowDeploymentLeningrad Author:Paul Virilio
“Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.” KnowsWayShouldTryingTodayPoliticalOrderProcessDealsPartyPrinciplesCasesDangerMachinesWorkersLibertarianHazardsAccommodateInconsistencyBolsheviks Author:Murray Bookchin
“Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.” PeopleTryingHardFeelingsLyingCoursesSpeakLanguageCasesMachinesAccurateFalsehoodShut UpDescribingSpeak The TruthInsufficientGravyFishy Author:Iris Murdoch
“In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.” ShouldChildrenSoulCasesCreatingMachinesIntelligentInstrumentsProvidingConstructsAttemptingMansionsProcreationIntelligent Machines Author:Alan Turing
“...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.” MeanFunCasesMachinesFancyExpensesAllowingCopying Author:George W. Bush
“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.” GivingShouldChildrenParentBrainCasesSubjectsMachinesFunctionLimitationSubstitutesPassagesMechanismBreakdownEducatorPassage Of TimeInexorable Book:Speech and Brain Mechanisms Source: Speech and Brain Mechanisms
“TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.” NeedsKindLittlesStatesSufferingActorsBitsCasesTvsLittle BitMachinesCreatorDrivenProducers Author:Rose Byrne
“To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.” IfsMenShouldWritingMeanBreakCasesProduceBuiltShould HaveMachinesEvery ManHandleInventionCrapBreaking DownManualsDrillsCrank Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.” MindIdeasWholeTurnsCasesBedMachinesScaredGood IdeasGrindHaltCogs Author:Trevor Baylis
“After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.” YearsWellsCertainQualityCasesStudyEnvironmentEffectsObjectsEvidenceMachinesIntelligentLaysWitnessAtmosphereReportsDevicesInvestigationSiteUfoElectricalRadarHigh QualityInstrumentation Author:Raymond E. Fowler
“In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it makes us feel. Here there seem to be no problems with a purely mental state account, no counterpart to the experience machine that could bring us to think that we are being deceived by mere appearances. [...] If I am suffering physical pain then I can be quite wrong about the organic cause of my affliction, or even about whether it has one, without that error diminishing in the slightest either the reality of my pain or its impact on the quality of my life.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsI CanStatesProblemRealitySeemsPainSufferingCausesQualityCasesConditionsMachinesAccountsImpactErrorsMereAppearanceAfflictionNo ProblemDeceivedCounterpartsPhysical PainBeing Deceived Author:L. W. Sumner