“When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.” EndsPassionDecisionVisionRiskProductsHugeEconomicsMachinesCreatorManufacturingSamenessVending Machines Author:Steven Bochco
“The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.” PeoplePersonsWaitingEffortAttitudeAwarenessGreatnessHugeListeningDegreesNewsOrdinaryMachinesEntertainmentSensesConsumersAnalysisGoodsWakingVehicleHeroismOddsEarningExceptionalPassivityOrdinary Person Author:Marshall McLuhan
“I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.” GivingTryingBigsEnemyHugeWalkingGunMachinesGive MeRadioHeavyVietnamJungleMachine GunsGrunt Author:Bob Gunton
“Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.” WayKindEffortHugeListeningMachinesDrivingBest WayZoneConcreteListening To MusicFuturistic Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.” FactsProblemLightSoundVoiceMy OwnInterestingBrainHalfRichTvsHugeRight NowMouthsMachinesHearingShadeComing OutUp And DownAnswering Machines Author:Hugh Laurie
“In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.” PeopleWorldWayShouldHumansWellsDoeTodayHumanityWealthRiskHugeBecomingDignityMachinesSlaveGenuineWell BeingMaking MoneyMaterialismWise Man Once SaidMaterialisticHuman DignityCogsMaterialistic World Author:Dalai Lama
“The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.” PeopleStillsCharacterCultureHugeIndustryMachinesGood PeopleMusic Industry Author:Robyn
“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.” PeopleThinkingPlayWholeHomeHoursBrotherHugeNormalMachinesYeahRingsBellsYellingBumperPinballYelling And Screaming Author:Hulk Hogan
“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.” WorldHas BeensCountryHandsGovernmentLeaderSecurityMilitaryHugeGunMachinesThirdsBasesMethodAssumingLocalsDataCorporationsAgencyEstablishmentConspiracyPartnershipVentureJointsThird WorldCliqueInterrogationMultinationalsMachine GunsTacitMilitary LeaderMultinational CorporationsJoint VenturesLocal Business Author:Edward S. Herman
“When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsFirstsDoePowerfulHugeSceneGunMachinesMachine Guns Author:Zach Gilford
“Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.” ThinkingHumansImaginationChanceActingHugeBecomingAll ThingsMachinesSavingBlightHuman ImaginationMechanizationThinking Alike Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye
“Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.” IdeasHandsBeautifulHugeGunMachinesBrilliantShockingCompelledBeautiful WomenContradictoryMachine Guns Author:Shirin Neshat
“She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.” RunningCareersHugeMomMachinesMy MomActiveHandleManagersDay To Day Author:Diana DeGarmo
“We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.” NeedsCountryProcessPowerfulCompanyHugeMachinesElectionOur CountryReformVotingStolenElection Process Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.” WellsYoungSongFightingFansMovementHugeMessagesMachinesIndependentCriticsHip HopRapCirclesHipsHopsFierceRepresentationLegionRap SongEmcee Author:Bakari Kitwana
“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“Russia is a very reliable and big market. I don't remember the figure but, for example, the German machine-building industry has been increasing its supplies to Russia every year. These supplies are huge. Does someone want to discontinue these supplies? We'll buy from somebody else.” WantYearsDoeHas BeensBigsRememberFiguresExampleBuildingHugeIndustryMachinesRussiaSupplies Author:Vladimir Putin
“I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.” PeopleThinkingProgressHugeMachinesNoiseArtificial IntelligenceArtificial Author:Freeman Dyson
“Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.” PeopleWorldDifferentHugeTrumpBuiltMachinesClintonCommunicateEightAssetsNo MoneyDifferent Worlds Author:Newt Gingrich
“If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsTodayJobsHouseNumbersHugeSkillsToolsMachinesStoresBranchesGapsBubblesNailsHammersStarbucksCalculusRetailHuge Numbers Author:Thomas Friedman
“The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.” KnowsDoneTodayAbleNightSleepHugeMachinesHardestGapsHardest ThingUrgentGoing To Sleep Author:Donald Knuth
“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.” YearsBigsGrowsHoursFeetMinutesCenturyWindHugeFineColdMachinesTownsRoundsShoesSizeBonesFleshTinyWeatherDustClockShakesGrainBlanketMonstrousWrinklesPollenTurnipsCold Wind Author:Ray Bradbury
“I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingRunningLyingLeftBehindsSunSawsMysteryHugeMountainShould HaveMachinesDiedLaysRanEnginesCriedAmazedSteamStinkMountain Top Book:Mother Night: A Novel Source: Mother Night: A Novel
“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
“This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.” HelpingScienceUniverseStepsHistoryHappenedEventsHugeMachinesGloriousChaptersVersesPhysicistBeginningGenesisRecreationUnraveling Author:Michio Kaku
“It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.” Has BeensIdeasBigsScienceGrowsGrowthHugeAmountMachinesAccountsIncludingDuesMythOur TimeNew Ideas Author:Karl Popper
“Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.” IfsWayHumansWould BeFormCoursesResultsExistenceBrainExpressionHugeProjectsMassMachinesFunctionAncientEvolveBoardsHumankindChipsNetworkingPardonOnce Upon A TimeCircuitsHuman BrainSiliconAutonomousTransistors Author:Dan Simmons
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.” MenHandsPainOrderTurnsJusticePowerfulRichHugeDegreesCapacityWeakMachinesMiseryInjusticeResistanceTensionGoverningRich ManBurstingSlyCogsBoiler Author:Georges Bernanos
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.” PeopleThinkingWorldFacesFightingThreeNationsPerfectPartyMillionsHugeTerribleWeaponsHundredIdealsMachinesUnityWarriorConcreteSteelSlogansFanaticsMonstrousShouting1984 ImportantThinking The SameSame FaceMarching Forward Book:1984 Source: 1984
“In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience” FeelsStillsGivenHugeLike YouQuietMachinesWeightTheaterGravitySmall Parts Author:Minnie Driver
“If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.” IfsI CanHappensLosesDealsLaughingWorstHugeMachinesFactoriesWorst ThingsLimbsCrushed Author:George Lopez
“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.” MenWorldFeelsBelieveRunningEarthPastSpiritNightThreeForeverStreetsDutyHugeWallColdTerriblePureSixFlowRiversGoldMachinesGreedCrowdsAbsenceMaterialismScornTerrible ThingsHerdsDay And NightAvarice Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.” WorldBelieveRunningNightFoundForeverStreetsDutyHugeTerribleMoralityMachinesCrowdsThank GodTypicalTerrible ThingsHerdsDay And NightProtestantsSpaniards Author:Federico Garcia Lorca