“As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.” WayWantTryingForceEffortSupportProduceApproachMachinesBlindVotingVotersBlindnessTrailsBetter WaysCountyPaperless Author:David Dixon
“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.” IfsBelieveWellsWantedAsksSpaceSupportStruggleSawsGreaterAirPossibilityWindMachinesStrongerSpeedConquerGentlemanAviationReceivingPredictionsAdaptedSusceptible Author:Jules Verne
“There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.” YearsFirstsChildrenBookStoriesHandsJobsNightHalfSupportWifeCollegeMachinesManagementFellowsMy WifeTiesHookLaundryNight Shift Author:Stephen King
“Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.” IfsNeedsWarSupportEconomySceneModelsIdealsMachinesVictimFilledTerrorRevengePropagandaCrashPutinStokeTerror AttacksRussian Economy Author:Garry Kasparov
“Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got the biggest, heaviest calf machine in the world. It is a miracle that this man can even support this kind of weight. He is really an inspiration to me.” MenWorldKindArtInspirationLostSupportSpecialUniqueMachinesWeightMiracleFeatsCalvesLost ArtWeightlifting Author:Bill Pearl
“Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a place where one can fully support oneself with the help of others within smaller, sustainable communities. Being interdependent instead of relying mostly on machines for the things we need.” PeopleNeedsHelpingCommunitySupportMachinesOneself Author:Mary Mattingly
“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
“New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.” LooksSupportMachinesMethodEtcRegressionVectors Author:Bradley Efron
“I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.” WantStillsRunningAmericaHousePaySupportStreetsTaxesCapableMachinesMurderLifetimeKillingGesturesAmazedLoving Life Book:David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame Source: David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame
“Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.” WayCountryEyeBitsHalfWorrySupportDangerMonthsConversationSixOkayMachinesCommunicateDrivingBobUnfairUnclesTigersSnakesSix MonthsOther HalfBlinkOverratedInsistingDashboards Author:Bill Bryson
“I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.” MenNeedsTryingTwoLeftCompanySupportFireMilitaryGunMachinesSuicideConstantMarineMarine CorpsMachine GunsUsmcUnited States MarineUnited States Marine CorpsMy Marine Author:Clifton B. Cates
“People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.” PeopleGivingStillsHardJobsUsedAsksAnswersSupportHellMachinesGive MeAssHeyAsk MeEmsPurpleKickingHookedCoffinsHendrixHazeRocking OutPurple Haze Author:Steven Tyler