“I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.” StillsPlayOfficeMachinesOriginalsNbaHookGeekJamSnlNintendoArcades Author:Taran Killam
“Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.” StatesBodyGivenImpossibleReturnMachinesOriginalsVariousPerpetualConstructsAccordEntropyPerpetual Motion Author:Ludwig Boltzmann
“Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.” ImportantAmericaTechnologyGeniusDegreesMachinesUniversalInnovationOriginalsBritishContributionDaddyMachineryInventorCompetentWhitneyConcededTrue Genius Author:Charles R. Morris
“As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.” YearsFirstsLastsForeverFiveInformationExampleMachinesOriginalsLikesBrandsFive YearsDigitalTapeFoundersMarsLaboratoryJetNasaVikingsGlobal BusinessPropulsion Author:Paul Saffo
“'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.” IfsMenFirstsSelfNaturalCrazyExampleStonesMachinesOriginalsExcellenceSly Author:Jon Landau
“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.” PeopleWorldWayTryingBelieveLittlesStillsFactsCertainHateChoicesIndividualSinSimpleTeachTakenInfluenceHeroCircumstancesMachinesOriginalsGuiltDon't BelievePropagandaAshamedVillainAlways TryingWrong WayOriginal SinHate And Fear Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
“The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.” IfsMindWellsLosesToo MuchAwarenessSkillsComputerMachinesAskingOriginalsIntelligenceGuidesMechanismRobotsUtilityBios Author:Rajneesh
“The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth” MenFirstsDoeTechnologyPossibilityMachinesEssenceOriginalsThreatInstanceAffectedDeniedRevealingPrimal Author:Martin Heidegger
“In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.” HumansCoursesStarsPersonalityAspectProgramMachinesOriginalsNotionHarvestDownloadsHuman Personality Author:Poul Anderson
“The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveDeserveMachinesOriginalsDiscussionMeaningless Author:Alan Turing