“We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.” NeedsGovernmentValuesNumbersDependsIndustryMachinesInfiniteDollarsChecksWelfareCopiesZeroBankingMoney PowerSoundness Author:Ron Paul
“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.” YearsSaidGodUseLastsFivePiecesOne DayPaperYears AgoMachinesStupidityCopiesBlankSecretaryTypingCopiers Author:Dave Barry
“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainCausesSimplePowerfulPiecesProductsTypeMachinesSellsAssumingCopiesSoftwareHardware Author:Bill Gates
“Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWritingHas BeensFactsLastsModernHavensInvolvedActivityMachinesCuriousCopiesOld FashionedDomainTypewritersDuplicateProcessors Author:Susan Sontag
“To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.” WayMindIdeasDreamChallengesLinesMemoriesWalksParticularMachinesStructureDetailsRelyCopies Author:Anne Waldman
“We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.” LifeSelfReasonSciencePurposeProcessObjectsBuiltMachinesLive LifeCopiesSoleDnaSustainingPropagation Author:Richard Dawkins
“Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.” WritingLostForgetAdviceSubjectsPaperMachinesCraftsCopiesSheetsPublishersElderly Author:E. B. White