“The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.” HumansBrainConsciousnessWonderfulEvidenceConnectionsMachinesBusyDuesArchitectureElegant Author:Carl Sagan
“I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?” FeelsWritingMadeRealLightWaitingPaperComputerLettersConnectionsMachinesSpeedPensAversionWaiting For YouHumming Author:Fran Lebowitz
“All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.” TechnologyComputerConnectionsMachinesPhonesCellsCell PhoneLaptopsServer Author:Kevin Kelly
“I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.” UseMemoriesInternetMy FamilyConnectionsMachinesFlashJewelsSurfingMacsUbuntuLaptopsLinuxInternet Connection Author:Donald Knuth
“When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.” EndsWholeEarthSciencePurposeCertainViewsConnectionsMachinesProductionsWorthyPerceivePeculiarConstructionFabricAdaptedGeology Book:Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations Source: Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations
“For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.” LifeFirstsSelfEnoughScienceForceActingShapesFirst TimeConnectionsMachinesBasesMereHeatComparisonPoeticEnginesMechanismEvidentCoalPuzzlesCombustionLocomotives Author:Carl Ludwig