“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.” YearsMadeUseHomeRememberUsedPiecesObjectsTaughtMaterialsMomMachinesMy MomSingersGrandmotherFlatsMy GrandmotherIntriguingSewingPedals Author:Bibhu Mohapatra
“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...” HumansLawNightUnderstandingImaginationPowerfulPiecesMaterialsColdTerribleTasksMachinesComplicatedFedsEnginesIrelandMachineryTerrible ThingsGrindEducation SystemPredeterminedRuthlessnessEnglish Education Author:Patrick Pearse
“Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.” IfsChoicesPiecesPaperMachinesMarkCandidatesVotingGamblingPullingOld FashionedVegasLas VegasLeversSlot Machines Book:My Years as Prime Minister Source: My Years as Prime Minister
“Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?” WritingEnoughFactsAbleSituationPiecesExerciseAmbitionMachinesComicUncomfortablePensComposerOfferingPrivilegedChamberAdvertisementsCartoonistUnheardComic StripsIllustratorsToyotaUncomfortable SituationsChoosy Author:Chris Ware
“A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.” KnowsWorldPiecesMachinesFilledBoundaries Book:Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe
“The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.” LittlesDoneHumanityIndividualBitsWorkPiecesPrideLittle BitMachinesMeritDefectsMachinery Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.” YearsSaidGodUseLastsFivePiecesOne DayPaperYears AgoMachinesStupidityCopiesBlankSecretaryTypingCopiers Author:Dave Barry
“Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.” WorldMindScienceWinningTeachPiecesBuildingLessonsMachinesIntelligentMathematicsTradeSpeciesVanityWho We AreOur WorldBetter PlaceIntelligent Machines Author:Astro Teller
“There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.” KindPiecesRiskHigherMachinesPatientOperationsStakesOrgansLiverKidneysTransplantsCadaversDialysis Author:John Roberts
“I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.” ShowsPiecesDadPicksMachinesIndiaMy DadStudiosGermanySewing Author:Jason Wu
“Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.” PeopleKnowsHelpingCoursesPiecesProduceComputerMachinesSoftwareLiteracyFluentComputer Literacy Author:Seymour Papert
“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainCausesSimplePowerfulPiecesProductsTypeMachinesSellsAssumingCopiesSoftwareHardware Author:Bill Gates