“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.” PeopleHas BeensRealHardBodyLawScienceGivenHeavenSimplePlanetsMachinesRoundsVariousObstaclesLabourSpheresFluidCircuitsImpervious Author:Tycho Brahe
“Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.” FeelsEarthBeautifulSpaceDarknessSeaPlanetsMoonStandingMachinesBlueShiningTranquilityPlanet EarthTime MachineForebodingBlue Planet Author:Buzz Aldrin
“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.” FirstsPersonsSelfChallengesGrowing UpGrowingCenturyPlanetsMachinesTwentiesDefinitionsAcquireOrganismsTranscendent Author:Walter Truett Anderson
“I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.” FacesPlanetsMachinesKillingChampionUnstoppable Author:Dean Ambrose
“Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like animals, we also decided that this planet has two moons, and we decided that anything else we wanted to do was allowed. It was a new perspective to make the film.” ChildrenTwoBodyEyeWantedFilmAnimalKnowingDesignPlanetsPerspectiveMoonDecidedMachinesNew Perspective Author:Alex Abreu
“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
“The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.” EarthLyingCompanyBreakSunPlanetsRevolutionTaxesArgumentMachinesBillsSpotsAdsJohnsonFreezeCongressmanCopyingAccelerateTax BreaksEnronDepreciation Author:James Lileks
“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.” NeedsMayDifferentWarCultureNamesRoomsRaceTechnologyPossibilityPlanetsIndustryToolsMachinesAbsolutesTradeStructureInvestmentDeterminedSettlingEnterpriseMechanicIdenticalPossessingCollectivismElbowsSpaceshipsDifferent CulturesFree EnterpriseTruismInterstellarCapital Investment Book:Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League
“As soon as it's behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that's happening around.” NeedsIdeasBehindsPlanetsColdComputerHappeningsMachinesMajorityBreathingMics Author:Lou Doillon
“The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.” PeopleHardMovingHoursPlanetsThousandMachinesSurfaceNuclearMilesTireExplosionsSpinningBack And ForthRubberThousand Miles Author:Joe Rogan
“...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE” WholeIgnorancePlanetsMachinesLibraryComplicatedPermanentRuinedExhibitsFutilityFoyers Book:Hocus Pocus Source: Hocus Pocus
“Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.” IfsMenWorldYearsLongLightWould BeEarthLastsDiesEnergyLeftForceWaterHappenedMankindCenturyPlanetsWindHundredBuiltRainStandingMachinesTeethTensionHumankindMiceInsectsDroppingChaoticDrainsRustDevouringNibbling Author:Justin Cronin
“It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking unashamedly to be allowed to continue worshipping the miracle of the planet, and the worship of a natural system not yet touched, never touched by the machines of man. A place with the residue of God – the scent, feel, sight, taste, and sound of God – forever fresh upon it” MenFeelsKindMayLastsSoundNaturalChurchForeverMinesPlanetsTasteWorshipPercentMachinesSightMiracleAskingWestCoreTouchedScent Book:The book of Yaak Source: The book of Yaak
“One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.” MenPlanetsMaterialsMachinesThirdsTreasureOne ManTrashAnother ManEarthquakesRaw MaterialsBusters Author:Mira Grant
“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