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“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”

“The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.”

People Ifs Mind Matter Stories Humanity Fine Behavior Shots Machines Performances Complexes Mysterious Shooting Sensitive Lacking Nuance Indefinable Lacking Something

Author:Irvin Kershner

“Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.”

Men Machines Complexes Journalistic

Author:Jacques Ellul

“The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.”

Brain Computer Machines Complexes

Book:Introducing Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives

Source: Introducing Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives

“Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.”

“Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.”

Way Humans Hurt Human Beings Simple Fantasy Regret Machines Complexes Scenarios

Author:Nell Zink

“We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.”

Doe Has Beens Home Purpose Forget Poet Higher Tools Machines Complexes Flight Faster Excitement Aviation Toys Sole Predictions Gardener Barbarians Unnoticed Navigators New Toys

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.”

“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”

Firsts May Artist Principles Effects Movement Particular Succeed Machines Complexes Wheels Fewer Employed

Book:The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

“Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its way through all those rules, and that takes a lot of processing. So AI works best when a small computer is using it on a small problem - your car's anti-lock brakes are based on AI. Or you need to use a giant computer on a big problem - like IBM using a room-size machine to compete against humans on Jeopardy in 2011.”

“Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.”

Machines Complexes Organisation

Author:Kofi Annan

“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.”

Ifs Want Needs Grows Computer Machines Plant Complexes Giants Chips Facility Manufacturing Fabrication Semiconductors

Author:Ralph Merkle

“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.”

People Thinking Littles Problem Bigs Process Company Creative Smart Machines Complexes Behave Substitutes Gears Big Companies

Author:Elon Musk

“But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.”

“Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?”

Men Inspirational Heart Made Machines Complexes Cunning Rivals

Author:Pablo Casals

“Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.”

Mean Science Wonderful Machines Property Complexes Mechanism Delicate Organisms Marvellous Living Organisms Biochemistry

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine - technology - to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.”

People Ifs Knows Men Mean Earth Force Easy Walks Technology Know How Our Lives Influence Subjects Demand Machines Complexes Cease Making Money Filling Predestined

Book:POINTS OF REBELLION

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION

“It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.”

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