“I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.” WayHas BeensHandsAbleCertainEventsBirthComputerMajorsDrawsMachinesAskingStructureDrawingMotivatedAsking QuestionsExtendingAdventComputer Graphics Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.” ThinkingDifferentMightScienceMy OwnHeardMajorsBuiltMachinesMathematicsEnginesSkullsAnalytics Author:David Leavitt
“I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.” PeopleYearsMadeWantedFacesLevelsCareersHavensMajorsUnderstoodMachinesMajorityIncrediblesAccessLabelsDistribution Author:DJ Shadow
“It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.” PoliticalForceActingTechnologyMajorsMachinesPolitical Systems Author:Terence McKenna
“You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England; exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities; and much, much more.” UseCertainPlanetsInternetMajorsMachinesEnglandUniversityAvailableCoffeeSodaCambridgeVending MachinesCambridge University Author:Dave Barry
“A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.” KnowsAgeBrainDiseaseMajorsMachinesFunctionFoundationInsightCuresNew AgeSpawnBrain FunctionBrain Science Author:Gerald Edelman
“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
“Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.” PeopleWorldMatterStatesUseNamesUnitedUnited StatesParticularCommunicationMajorsSittingBuiltMachinesOrganizationAddressesServingGoogleLocationComprehensiveInterfacesDatabasesSubpoenas Author:Julian Assange