“By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.” PeopleWritingUsedCommonKnownTasksMachinesJournalismProcessing Author:Robert Motherwell
“There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.” ThreeNamesKnownFameMachinesCornersSingersGlobesSewingCoca Cola Author:Elizabeth Arden
“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.” MindWellsMayDoeTwoDifferentHomeBodyHandsLeftTermKnownTearsTypeJokesMachinesGhostChairsPairsCategoriesDogmaFloodAbsurdityConstructsWell KnownPropositionsMind And BodyGlovesLeft HandPurchasers Book:The Concept of Mind Source: The Concept of Mind
“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
“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.” MenMadeSpaceCitiesQualityKnownGreaterSkyOffersMachinesWestWideQuantityUncertainFrontiersLaboratorySkyscraperOpen SpacesWild WestWide Open Spaces Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten” KnowsShouldHumansWellsSaidTwoTodayLeftWaitingHoursKnownKnow HowBehaviorMessagesStandardsShould HaveMachinesChecksGatesComing BackClayWaiting For YouNormalcy Author:Kelley Armstrong
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.” StillsScienceKnownEvolutionSurvivalMachinesSelfishPreservesGenesVehicleRobotsGeneticsMoleculesAstonishmentSelfish Gene Author:Richard Dawkins
“Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.” MayValuesIndividualCausesEnjoyKnownProductsPleaseMachinesSelectionVending Machines Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection
“The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.” MenSeemsFormForceSpaceUnitedKnownAirFutureMachinesDistancePracticalsCombinationSubstanceAirplaneMachineryDemonstrationLong DistanceFlying Machines Author:Simon Newcomb
“The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.” KnownCircumstancesMachinesChessTitlesSufficientFlexibilityAlteredAdmiringDrawbacks Author:Max Euwe