“Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'” DifferentFourWindMachinesFantasticPretendingUnbelievableBelievableFantastic FourAirships Author:Kerry Washington
“Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.” ThinkingEyeScienceBrainFourResearchMachinesFourthMeasurementMarket Research Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.” LevelsFourComputerMachinesEightSymbolsCodeGenesTelephonesBinary Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
“But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.” WantWritingYearsBookYoungSilenceClearFiveFourDyingStudentsMachinesMajorityRhythmArtisticFive YearsPublishPokeYoung WritersInside And Outside Author:Junot Diaz
“You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.” TryingTwoUsedBitsSoundFourTypeCapableMachinesCome UpGuidesSpotsLimitationKicksHatsExploitsRestrictionGearsSnares Author:Rob Brown
“The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.” IfsWayArtSeemsFourExampleHairMachinesTechniqueSavedUselessNot SureDepartmentUnclesGreetingsSplitting Author:Umberto Eco