“Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.” ThinkingMindPersonsHas BeensImportantIdeasWholeSilenceOpinionGoneEmpathyMachinesDestroyedGiantsDevicesOur ThoughtsEvery Second Author:Gary Shteyngart
“We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules.” BelieveWellsFormPrayerSkyMachinesGiantsRequestVending Machines Author:Wayne Dyer
“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.” ThinkingWorldReasonStrongAudienceStupidResourcesFairsMachinesInfiniteSlaveGiantsControlledSteelObedient Book:The Shock of the New Source: The Shock of the New
“We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.” WantFeelsLooksPlayShowsHandsChanceRiskSafeMachinesGiantsJust OneWowTake A ChanceCogs Author:James Badge Dale
“Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.” MenLastsHe ManMachinesGiantsProportionToysReverse Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.” PeopleKnowsWorldLooksBigsBeautifulStreetsMachinesPassingPassingsGiantsLook UpBusRidingAngleVery BeautifulObliviousLooking DownPassing By Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” WayNeedsHumansUseProblemBigsRoomsCarComputerMachinesComplexesSizeConclusionGiantsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialLocksBig ProblemsProcessingAlgorithmsBrakeJeopardyIbmSmall Problems Author:Kevin Maney
“Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.” IfsWantMeanTwoBigsLightRunningEarthFilmThreeBrainHalfHellForeverWeekDirectorsTenMachinesTheaterMusicalProductionsBoringHillsGiantsWorking ItPlaywrightHell On EarthFilm SetRehearsingSo Boring Author:Tony Kushner
“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.” IfsWantNeedsGrowsComputerMachinesPlantComplexesGiantsChipsFacilityManufacturingFabricationSemiconductors Author:Ralph Merkle
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” PeoplePersonsImportantInspiringRightsComputerRacismMachinesPropertyProfitMotiveGiantsMaterialismIncapableProperty RightsMilitarismBreaking SilenceProfit MotiveTriplet Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.” OpinionMachinesGiantsDevicesOur ThoughtsEvery Second Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.” WorldWould BeAgePastUsedLyingUniverseBeliefHeavenStarsBornSkyMovementHugeMachinesNotionPhilosopherHearingNoiseGiantsControlledLaughedSpheresCrystalsNoisyStars In The Sky Author:Dan Abnett
“Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?” MindKindBrainComputerMachinesGiants Author:David H. Hubel