“I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights, because machines are more convenient and cause less muscle pain and require less concentration and are generally less dangerous. BUT, if you like to have real gains you have to train hard and heavy, and you have to chose always the LEAST favorite exercises which actually give you the best possible results. So go for the least favorite exercises, the free weights... and go for the muscle pain!” IfsGivingRealHardBodyPainCausesResultsHonestDangerousExerciseGainsMachinesWeightTrainHeavyMusclesConcentrationConvenientTrain Hard Author:Nasser El Sonbaty
“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.” WorldNeedsHas BeensReasonGivenResultsQualityMoralStruggleModernSecurityPossibilityGoes OnMachinesMethodProductionsFoolishChosenEaseNo ReasonStarvationEnergeticGood NatureOverwork Book:In Praise of Idleness Source: In Praise of Idleness
“You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.” WorldWayRealDiesCausesProcessResultsDogMachinesEncountersReal WorldBitesNailsPredictableDodge Author:Bill Mollison
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.” ResultsStruggleProgressProduceHabitMachinesBreaking PromisesSith Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.” IfsFeelsShouldTryingScienceValuesResultsSpecialProveNegativeTestsMachinesIncreaseMathematicsPermitConstructsHypothesisSequenceConsecutive Author:Alfred Tarski
“The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.” GivingMeanFactsDifferencesResultsNumbersPrinciplesMachinesBasesMethodMathematicalRangeConstructsSelected Author:Ada Lovelace
“We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.” ThinkingUsedResultsMachinesErasLiteracyUptightProcessors Author:Brian Eno
“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.” KnowsLightHappensScienceUnderstandingCan DoSimpleResultsKnowledgeForeverRecordsOne ThingDogExampleNeededComputerMachinesConstantPatternsSpeedThings HappenInventionShipsElectricityRocketsAccumulation Author:Scott Adams