“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.” IfsPlayerWonderfulMankindPureMachinesPreparedChessInventionFormerOperationsComparisonBe PreparedAnalogiesCalculatingChess Players Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.” MenWorldGoalSawsPlayerCoupleMachinesIncrediblesMaradonaBest EverZidane Author:Jose Mourinho
“The market is like a machine that needs to be constantly excited. It needs to constantly produce wealth and more excitement. There are some leading players who are always there before everyone else, and they set market trends, they make people safe about the excitement. Of course, those who buy it first are the first to drop it. It's an ongoing game.” PeopleNeedsFirstsCoursesGamesWealthPlayerProduceSafeMachinesExcitedExcitementTrendsOngoing Author:Maurizio Cattelan
“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.” IfsTryingMindLongTwoFeelingsHandsMovingUniverseGamesLeftSimpleWorryAlivePlayerFrontsMachinesFocusedScreensSlipsFrustratedButtonsRelentlessYou AgainStaying AliveLeft HandFeeling Depressed Author:Ernest Cline
“The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.” UseSportsPlayerExampleCollegeRevolutionDemandMachinesDollarsAthleteReportsProtestEpisodesContinuingDisturbingProfileExhilaratingVisibilityHigh ProfileCollege Sports Author:William C. Rhoden
“Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.” ShouldMovingScienceGamesLostResultsNumbersPlayerConsequenceMachinesOrganizationChessExperimentsNervousAccumulationRegisterPlaying GamesChess Players Author:William Stanley Jevons
“An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.” FeelsTryingPlayerTeamMachinesEncouragementHotSparksAutomobileIgniteCogs Author:Knute Rockne