“And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!” WayFeelsShouldLittlesHandsEarthKnownKnowingSkyYouthPrideMachinesBlueWingsFlightSecureAviationHorizonLaughedRidingShould IFarewellDaylightHazardsEver After Author:Cecil Arthur Lewis
“Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like animals, we also decided that this planet has two moons, and we decided that anything else we wanted to do was allowed. It was a new perspective to make the film.” ChildrenTwoBodyEyeWantedFilmAnimalKnowingDesignPlanetsPerspectiveMoonDecidedMachinesNew Perspective Author:Alex Abreu
“I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.” GivingWellsKnowingMachines Author:Louis C. K.
“It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.” ThinkingLittlesStillsHappensLinesKnowingNiceComputerModelsMachinesScreensClassicPriceless Author:Daniel Simon
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.” PeopleKindLiteratureAnswersFictionCompassionKnowingMachinesFavorsDeclineSloth Author:George Saunders
“The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.” PeopleIfsHumansHomeWishWaitingPerfectPartyKnowingMessagesMachinesSickRevengeDisappearNot KnowingTravelerExtensionsWorking LifeAnswering MachinesIrritants Book:Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.” IfsWorldHumansDifferentSelfUniverseCausesCreativityKnowingAtheismEffectsEgoMachinesMereAtheistAbsurdRelateRejectsControlledTyrantsDictatorAgnosticJustifiedOmnipotentHuman FreedomThere Being No GodCogsTinkering Author:Karen Armstrong
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.” IfsLifeInspirationalLooksPersonsDiesAsksBitsKnowingOne ThingInspireMachinesLibrarySavedSavingGuaranteesShoreHeadingsBeing SingleFahrenheit 451 Book Author:Ray Bradbury
“With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.” ThinkingMindDoneHandsKnowingPhotographyMachinesEssenceCamerasPhotographerFlashEditingWorthless Author:Walker Evans