“The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.” PeopleIfsMindMatterStoriesHumanityFineBehaviorShotsMachinesPerformancesComplexesMysteriousShootingSensitiveLackingNuanceIndefinableLacking Something Author:Irvin Kershner
“Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.” WantRunningMachinesPerformancesWhat You WantIdiot Author:Keith Rabois
“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.” PeopleWayWritingDoneAbleMovingFunLinesPaintingMachinesPerformancesDance Performance Author:Jose Parla
“The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.” StillsGamesCan DoGenerationsAdvantageMachinesPerformancesTemporaryNew GenerationConsole Author:Will Wright
“Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.” MenHumansLongPoliticalLyingValuesProcessDecisionResultsJudgmentComputerCapacityProgramMachinesPerformancesPressureStrategyIncrediblesSpeedContraryChessCommitRangeSweatAestheticRecallsSuperficialBlundersStaplesTacticalWithstanding Author:Ira Carmen
“If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.” IfsGivingPersonsOrderIndividualForeverDutyMachinesPerformancesDown AndEfficiencySlow Down Author:William S. Burroughs
“When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.” HumansDoeInformationActivityMachinesPerformancesDown AndProgrammingMachineryInvolvingPianistHuman ActivityVirtuoso Author:Robert Moog
“'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
“It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.” LightSongRocksMachinesPerformancesTechniqueBlowing UpEncoresPinballFlashing Lights Author:Pete Townshend
“No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.” BrainFiguresSpeechMachinesPerformancesAlteredRoguesArtifacts Author:Tom Wolfe