“I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.” SpeakLanguageMinesMachines Book:Dune Messiah Source: Dune Messiah
“Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.” UseLanguageForceInterestInformationAuthorityComputerMachinesPollutionTopicsExaminationStorage Author:Saul Gorn
“Language is a machine for making falsehoods.” InspirationalLanguageMachinesFalsehood Book:Under the Net Source: Under the Net
“The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.” MindSoulBodyScienceLanguageLevelsBuddhismLowsMachinesLow Level Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.” SelfPoetryPurposeLiteratureLanguageChallengesRolesEnvironmentReflectionMachinesDefinitionsArtisticProgrammingIntroducingSelf ReflectionProgramming LanguagesMultiplicityCoders Author:Stephanie Strickland
“I started out with machine code and assembly language.” LanguageMachinesCodeAssemblyAssembly Language Author:Charles Petzold
“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.” ThinkingWayGivingTryingWellsKindHas BeensSometimesDoneJobsLanguageForceDangerousInternetComputerApproachToolsMachinesOppositesArmyOne WayShopsWay Of ThinkingComputer LanguageSwissPerlChainsawMachine Shop Author:Larry Wall
“We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.” YearsMindHumansRealityFallLanguageSocialFieldsMaterialsThousandTenMachinesFruitFiftyEngineeringThousand YearsEcologyLapSowing Author:Terence McKenna
“Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of humanity and poetry?” WritingDoeEndsTodayHumanityLanguageLinesTechnologyLosingMachinesCurrentsErasPostsVillagePaceShiftingHypeNavigateJargonVernacularGlobal VillageGutenberg Author:Constance Hale
“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.” LanguageTechnologyComputerMachines Author:Alan Kay
“Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.” HumansLanguageComputerMachines Author:Howard Rheingold
“I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.” MenPlayUseLife IsCultureLanguageStrongAbilityMachinesMethodHip HopCurrentsDetailsWork OutRhythmHipsHopsRapperVery StrongCliffsWashingSlangWashing MachinesDetails Of LifeLaundromats Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.” PeopleKnowsDifferentCountryEnoughLanguageMachinesGood EnoughTranslationsWebsiteDifferent CountriesDifferent Languages Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.” PeopleTryingHardFeelingsLyingCoursesSpeakLanguageCasesMachinesAccurateFalsehoodShut UpDescribingSpeak The TruthInsufficientGravyFishy Author:Iris Murdoch
“The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.” WritingKindLittlesRunningLanguageHoursHalfAirMachinesSimplicityEnglish LanguageHypeDeceptive Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.” PeopleFirstsStatesPurposeIndividualLanguageNationsTermHalfParticularPoetMachinesPhilosophicalPerceiveAbstractEnlightenedCivilizedVocabularyEnlightened Society Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.” FactsSchoolPoliticalSongLanguageSportsFiguresMajorsNewsMachinesInstitutionsStructureAdvertisingIdeologyOfficialsRepeatsStereotypePopular Song Author:Roland Barthes