“Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!” PeopleKnowsSexSonMomDadMachinesMy DadMy MomAssMessRough TimesMom And DadHaving SexYour SonTime Machine Author:Dane Cook
“If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.” PeopleIfsLooksHas BeensHardLevelsViewsTelevisionEqualMachinesIncomeConsumptionFractionsSewingDishwashers Author:Milton Friedman
“Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.” PeopleHardVoiceMachinesPhonesListen To YourselfUghAnswering Machines Author:Angelina Jolie
“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingMindArtUsedArtistNextVoiceLevelsCreativityTechnologyToo MuchDangerRight NowReflectionArt IsMachinesHip HopHipsHopsEfficientNext Level Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien
“My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.” PeopleEconomicPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationCostBenefitsComputerCapitalismMachinesWesternAnalysisWillingnessWestern CivilizationEconomic Systems Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.” PeopleKnowsHelpingCoursesPiecesProduceComputerMachinesSoftwareLiteracyFluentComputer Literacy Author:Seymour Papert
“Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.” PeopleIfsSoundComputerLettersMachinesBlindVery GoodAccessInaccessibleGaining Knowledge Author:Seymour Papert
“Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human.” PeopleHumansLooksSleepMachinesForbidden Author:Puff Daddy
“Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.” PeopleWayGivingHelpingWould BeBitsCommunityActivityCapableMachinesCookingBusyActiveContributionHousework Author:Jean Vanier
“Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.” PeopleWayKindAgeAbleValuesAbilityGeniusTomorrowSkillsComputerMachinesEngineeringGreat Value Author:Ray Kurzweil
“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsWaitingWorryFireDoorsStreetsTvsMachinesArmyScaredLondonBreathing Author:Charlie Brooker
“I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.” PeopleWritingVoiceLinesMediaMassTestsMachinesValidityMass MediaDictating Author:Rod Serling
“It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.” PeopleHumansGoalHuman BeingsMachinesOppositionUnlikely Author:Stuart J. Russell
“A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they can do per second. But that seems completely irrelevant. We don't know how the brain is organized, how it does what it does.” PeopleKnowsHumansDoeSeemsTermCan DoPowerfulNumbersBrainKnow HowMachinesOrganizedIrrelevantHuman BrainComputation Author:Stuart J. Russell
“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainCausesSimplePowerfulPiecesProductsTypeMachinesSellsAssumingCopiesSoftwareHardware Author:Bill Gates
“Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a quality of life where our needs would be taken care of so we could all basically be artists together in the evening, after we had fished, hunted, raised cattle - or whatever it was Marx imagined for us.” PeopleNeedsGivingLooksDreamWould BeCareTogetherArtistQualityTakenCenturyMachinesRaisedEveningQuality Of LifeCattleUtopianHunted Author:Astra Taylor
“To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site.” PeopleNeedsRealityGuyVisionMaterialsMetsLuckyMachinesSupposed To BeGoogleSiteBeing MeUnemployedLucky Guy Author:Astra Taylor
“Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.” PeopleWantedHouseRichCostMachinesBagsCoatsRich PeopleEuroCoutureGivenchy Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMeanCan DoSuccessfulDependsMachinesTendenciesMaking MoneyInvestorsAdviserSuperhumanWorkaholic Author:Sia Furler
“I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.” PeopleWayLooksMadeMusicianMachinesLike MeLook UpSampleBack In The Day Author:Rahki
“I know this is going to sound crazy, but I really love working out. I know that sounds sick to some people, but I didn't love it at first. It's become a healthy addiction for me. And like, now, if I'm watching TV on the couch I'm like, "Ugh, I could be on a cardio machine watching the same thing." That's just now how my mind thinks.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMindFirstsSoundCrazyTvsHealthyMachinesSickAddictionWork OutCouchesWatching TvCardioUgh Author:Khloe Kardashian
“People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!” PeopleTryingStuffStyleSceneAppreciateMachinesPoliceMtvPukeOld StuffPantera Author:Mat McNerney
“In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.” PeopleStillsBigsProcessInvolvedCostMachines Author:Zooey Deschanel
“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMachinesThreatenedRevealingSolaceAftermathPlugsSuperhuman Author:John L. Casti
“I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsHappensChangedMachinesTreatedSexismPublicityThings Have Changed Author:Erica Jong
“We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.” PeopleWorldNeedsEyeNumbersIdentityAdventureBearsWalkingMachinesStressMereUnseenLove SomeoneAwakenedLifelessTerminalNeed LoveCogsLoving Eyes Author:Marianne Williamson
“We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.” PeopleNeedsFeelsOrderOpportunityMediaMassMachinesMass Media Author:William S. Burroughs
“Mom used to walk with me for something like two or three miles to get to the day-old bakery. They had those machines where you buy doughnuts, those vending machines with the long johns and doughnuts. We would buy those bagels and pastries because that was our treat. And come back with shopping bags of these sweets, and who knows what was in it? That was what we could afford that could feed that many people.” PeopleKnowsLongTwoUsedThreeWalksSweetMomMachinesTreatsMilesBagsShoppingPastriesDoughnutBagelsBakeriesWalk With MeVending Machines Author:Sandra Cisneros
“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
“While most people are conditioned to see the body as a biological machine, you can begin to view it as a field of energy, transformation, and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself. Begin to notice both your internal dialogue and how you speak about your body and aging.” PeopleBodyEnergySpeakViewsFieldsMachinesTransformationAgingYour BodyDialogueInternals Author:Deepak Chopra
“I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.” PeopleThinkingFilmVoiceMachinesAnswering Machines Author:Natalie Portman
“God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.” PeopleNeedsLittlesSaidFormPoliticalHeavenBlackSinWhitePartyRepublicanRedMachinesDemocraticBrownYellowOppressedRepublican PartyPlagueDemocratic PartyMuhammadElijahElijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling” PeopleTwoJobsThreeLosesEconomyMachinesGamblingTwo Jobs Author:John Warren Kindt
“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.” PeopleIfsSaidIdeasStatesKidsWantedLawSupportMachinesMovedDetermineOpeningPullingTribesPollsInitialsGambleGamingPlaying GamesCasinosSlot MachinesRepeating HistoryHistory Repeats Itself Author:Donna M. Loring
“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
“Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.” PeopleWorldDifferentHugeTrumpBuiltMachinesClintonCommunicateEightAssetsNo MoneyDifferent Worlds Author:Newt Gingrich
“When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.” PeopleWantMatterUseShowsYoungCan DoCostMachinesNo Matter WhatRealisingBetter Than You Author:Phil Collins
“Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWritingHas BeensFactsLastsModernHavensInvolvedActivityMachinesCuriousCopiesOld FashionedDomainTypewritersDuplicateProcessors Author:Susan Sontag
“Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God.” PeopleThinkingHumansTodayChallengesReligiousHuman BeingsTechnologyIdentityMachinesIslamSpotsJudaismExesConvertingReligious Identity Author:Paul Virilio
“What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.” PeopleLooksKindMadeHandsJobsProductsMachinesDiedMirrorsGuidesCombinationUpsetDevicesExtensionsDaddy Author:Alex Gibney
“I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.” PeopleKnowsWorldLooksBigsBeautifulStreetsMachinesPassingPassingsGiantsLook UpBusRidingAngleVery BeautifulObliviousLooking DownPassing By Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.” PeopleLooksUseBigsNextTechnologyRevolutionInternetPerceptionMachinesBelieverRevolutionary Author:Linus Torvalds
“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsMayHardHelpingBigsWould BeFallHouseNationsBreakHard WorkEqualOrdinaryMachinesBottomRussiaBlockCommunistSwingsBackwardsEasternLaddersTippingBulgaria Author:Robin Leach
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasJobsSongComputerToolsMachinesWho You AreRevolutionaryApplesPocketsDevicesExtensionsIpods Author:Alex Gibney
“The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.” PeopleLyingAcceptingMachinesPropagandaDeceitOur SocietyObedientApatheticChurning Author:Gary Yourofsky
“If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsTodayJobsHouseNumbersHugeSkillsToolsMachinesStoresBranchesGapsBubblesNailsHammersStarbucksCalculusRetailHuge Numbers Author:Thomas Friedman
“That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.” PeopleWantHeartPersonsStuffCompanyHeardMy HeartMachinesMaking MoneyThat One Person Author:Tiffany Villarreal
“People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.” PeopleHeartAbleBrainMachinesMaking Money Author:Jaron Lanier
“I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.” PeopleThinkingSocialIssuesFailingCommunicationProjectsMachinesDuesSocial SystemsCultural Issues Book:Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World Source: Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World