“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?” PeopleThinkingWritingSometimesKidsWhiteRoomsDegreesWindowMachinesSilentCornersNoiseBagsTrashWhite Noise Author:Jennifer Weiner
“These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.” NeedsArtEnoughArtistOrderCoursesCommunityEnvironmentMachinesInspiredStudiosNoisePainterThese DaysFactoriesSensibilityBe Inspired Author:Guity Novin
“I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.” PlayWholeNightCultureLeftHoursColdMachinesNoiseAll NightVegasLas VegasSlot Machines Author:James Nesbitt
“To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.” MenYearsMachinesNoiseCrew Author:Clyde Tombaugh
“The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.” MachinesWingsBottomNoiseLayersRight Wing Author:Glenn Greenwald
“When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.” SongWhiteMachinesNoiseWashingWashing MachinesWhite Noise Author:Linda Ronstadt
“I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.” PeopleThinkingProgressHugeMachinesNoiseArtificial IntelligenceArtificial Author:Freeman Dyson
“I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.” WantChildrenIdeasSeemsMachinesProductionsNoiseReformConstructionIncessant Book:Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.” MachinesSignificantNoiseLoudLoadFootstepsLaundryShuffling Author:David Sedaris
“Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.” ThinkingMenWholeLightSpiritualLife IsSpiritCitiesMeditationAirModernOfficeMachinesConstantIntentionNoiseFlightAdvertisingPropagandaShopsWildernessMechanismExhaustedSuggestionsEnteringEverlastingModern LifeNeurosisCity Life Author:Thomas Merton
“Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.” WorldWould BeAgePastUsedLyingUniverseBeliefHeavenStarsBornSkyMovementHugeMachinesNotionPhilosopherHearingNoiseGiantsControlledLaughedSpheresCrystalsNoisyStars In The Sky Author:Dan Abnett
“Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."” MenInformationBandCapableMachinesBasesActiveNoiseNervousOperationsProgrammingDevicesRelativeAccurateFlexibleParallelsNoisyNervous SystemComputing Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990 Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990
“The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.” KnowsWayLifeHumansMayIdeasCausesTermCarMachinesSpreadPassingNoisePassingsConfusionHuman LifePollutionOld FashionedHolding BackMuddleRemorseless Author:J. G. Ballard