“Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.” LittlesAgeAmericaTermModernTraditionMachinesMusicalTechniqueRhythmImpulseComposerStimulusGershwin Author:George Gershwin
“You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.” FeelingsCertainOne ThingLike YouMachinesSpeedTechniqueJust OneTrailsReactingExertion Author:Ned Overend
“It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.” PeopleBelieveHumansKindSelfCultureSidesClearPlansMachinesRaisesTechniqueAll KindsVarietyDataConsumersCaptureFascismRippleAngelicStorageDemonicHurryingManipulativeSyntheticTiltImagingPharmacology Author:Terence McKenna
“It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.” PeoplePlayWould BeForcePowerfulDangerousEmotionalMachinesTechniqueLaboratoryElectricalNucleusEmotional Power Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.” BodyAgeSidesDarkMoonMachinesTechniqueYour BodyKingdomsContactAliensDark SideUraniumMesopotamiaMicrochips Author:Immortal Technique
“Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.” ShouldHeartDoeThreeCommonResourcesMachinesProfessionTechniqueCommon SensePianoHazardsFiascoPiano Playing Author:Vladimir Horowitz
“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
“Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.” MayTogetherNumbersTechnologyMachinesTechniqueCombination Author:Alvin Toffler
“The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.” IfsWayArtSeemsFourExampleHairMachinesTechniqueSavedUselessNot SureDepartmentUnclesGreetingsSplitting Author:Umberto Eco