“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.” IfsImportantLightFeltSpaceTreeFrontsMovementObjectsShapesMountainMachinesCamerasPhotographerBeing TrueGrassTexture Author:Paul Strand
“Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.” IfsWantBodyShapesMachinesYour Body Author:Brenda Song
“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.” UseAgeAbilityBrainEnvironmentShapesComputerMachinesMusclesDigitalEnginesOur EnvironmentSteamDescendantsMental PowerSteam Engines Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own strengths and weaknesses. The need concept is criticized as being too mechanical, as denying the autonomy and individuality of the human person, and as implying that the human being is a machine which "needs" fuel in the shape of food, engine dope in the shape of medicine, and spare parts provided by the surgeon.” NeedsHumansPersonsHuman BeingsShapesDemandWeaknessConceptsMachinesMedicineIndividualityFuelEnginesContrastSparesEconomistAutonomySurgeonsDopeStrength And WeaknessImplyingSpare Parts Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.” WantDoeEyeLiteratureImagineEffectsParticularReaderShapesMachinesAppropriateConstructsSolemnCalculationsLivelyInventingAdvancingSynthetic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.” UseShapesLettersMachinesBiggerAverageSculptors Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.” IfsThinkingHumansSometimesWould BeTodayFormHumanityEasierShapesComfortableMachinesGratefulPartnersRelateServantDesperateBe GratefulRobots Author:Isaac Asimov
“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.” ThinkingMenDoeBookFactsHouseDifferencesPoorLibertyRichShapesMassSmartMachinesInjusticeEnormousSettingEducatedSettingsBoredomHotelRich And PoorRich ManSweepingHordeTreadmillsEducated Man Book:Down and Out in Paris and London Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.” LifeFirstsSelfEnoughScienceForceActingShapesFirst TimeConnectionsMachinesBasesMereHeatComparisonPoeticEnginesMechanismEvidentCoalPuzzlesCombustionLocomotives Author:Carl Ludwig
“It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine.” LittlesHardMightRunningBitsHard WorkShapesLittle BitMachinesEverydayCraftsGymSweatAnkles Author:Nia Long