“Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.” ThinkingMomentsBeatsMachinesDefiningIndestructiblePinnacleDefining Moments Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition.” PeopleGivingIdeasMomentsUseProcessInterestingInformationLike YouMusicianMachinesIntelligentIntuitionSailOrganismsPreciseIntuitiveSailboat Author:Pantha du Prince
“One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.” KnowsMenPersonsImportantDifferentMomentsFeelingsRealityHappensMistakeHe ManIllusionMachinesRegardProfoundMoodPermanentRememberedConsidering Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.” IfsMenWorldWellsIdeasMomentsAbleLyingPrinciplesHe ManMaterialsArmsWeaponsMassCapableToolsMachinesCreatorAppropriateOrgansMachineryMonstrousSensoryCorrespondingWarships Author:Novalis
“For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".” FeelsHumansLongHas BeensSelfMomentsHuman BeingsBreakConversationLong TimeMachinesMeetingsCrucialBreaking DownSimplestInadequateGrindHaltCollisionReverberationCrucial Moments Author:May Sarton
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” MenWantSelfMomentsHandsChoicesUnderstandingExistenceFieldsPossibilityMachinesFunctionInfiniteSlaveWhat You WantAccessChosenMakersInfinitySelf KnowledgeIrrelevant Author:Deepak Chopra
“Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with and combine ourselves with machines and machinery and electronics - those will all be opt-in moments. Would you choose to have some sort of brain implant? Would you choose to have Google Glasses installed in your eyes? It's all an approach; it's all a glide path to the moment of genuine singularity; genuine artificial intelligence.” HumansMomentsEyeOpportunityHuman BeingsBrainPathApproachDrawsMachinesGlassesGenuineArtificial IntelligenceYou ChooseArtificialGoogleMachineryScenariosSingularityInterfacesElectronicsImplantsGoogle Glass Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.” IfsWayFeelsMomentsCharacterStoriesDesireReaderMachinesSavingStringsPullingPuppetsResistingEpiphany Author:Molly Antopol
“When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.” NeedsShouldMomentsUsedIndividualDifficultConsciousnessReturnMachinesTreatsTablesSpeciesKingdomsPhrasesAspirationKingdom Of GodSurgeonsLike Love Author:George Pattison
“The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment. But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.” DoeArtMomentsCan DoFocusAliveInternetHappeningsMachinesRelationExcitedDimensionsAnnoying Author:Alan Palomo
“You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut the space in your life to pursue what most people literally cannot afford a moment to pursue. So, yeah. I think that not only is that the role of the artist, but it might be a requirement.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMomentsMightArtistOrderBitsSpaceRolesCuttingLittle BitMachinesYeahPursueShakesOutsidersRequirementsMills Author:El-P
“I think it's just about the machine is about reporting the news, and then reporting the news about the news, and then having those moments where they sit around and go, "Are we reporting the news correctly? I think we are." And then they go back to the and the cycle just sort of continues.” ThinkingMomentsNewsMachinesCycles Author:Jon Stewart
“'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.” WorldArtMomentsArtistStageHappeningsMachinesPerformancesPunkCagesScarceTransportArt WorldCombiningEdgyDo It YourselfEthosCrumblingTime MachinePerformance Art Author:Jerry Saltz
“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.” KnowsMenWayFirstsMayDifferentEndsMomentsCircumstancesEgoMachinesThirdsCeasePermanentTreatmentPeculiarUnchangeable Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.” FeelsPersonsMomentsFacesBreakMachinesInnocentCrucialBreaking DownInadequateGrindCrucial MomentsInnocent Person Author:May Sarton
“All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.” PeopleWellsHas BeensMomentsBitsPrayerSimpleMorningClearDyingStrangeActivityConsciousMachinesDressesDefenseDefinedDeliberateWashingHymnsIndecisionLinenMutteringSmall SimpleWell Oiled Machines Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.” HumansMomentsFeelingsForcePaintingMachinesCriticalMiserableBrokeCritical Moments Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.” MenMomentsAgeNextHoursCompassionLibertyMachinesFellowsMiseryRoseEndureTyrannyRebellionToilBondageFellow ManFamineImprisonmentOne HourInhumanityStripesVindication Author:Thomas Jefferson