Machines Quotes - Page 35

• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

  Umberto Eco

  Mind, World, Today

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• 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.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Uncles, Hair

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• Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Fate, Men, Singing

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• In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Laughing, Empathy

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.37, Crown Archetype

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• The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Careers, Challenges

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• Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strength, Sacrifice, Men

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• One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

  Issey Miyake

  Underwear, Fabric, Assistants

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• Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Men, Heavy

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• A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

  George Gershwin

  Emotional, Triumph, Height

  "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

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• The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

  Camille Paglia

  Female, Body, Spirit

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.37, Canongate Books

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• Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  E. B. White

  Work, Men, Ordinary

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• He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
  [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Flying, Stuck

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• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

  Robert Caro

  Country, Creating, Texas

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• But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

  Jeff Bezos

  Hair, Levels, Stuff

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• But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following:
  a) They are not built by human beings..
  b) They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity..
  c) They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes.

  Hermann Oberth

  Strong, Mean, Air

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• Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces.

  Guy Murchie

  Strong, Skeletons, Skulls

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.220, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Basketball, Ultrasounds, Lockers

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• This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

  Malcolm Campbell

  Science, Race, Car

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• There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.

  Alan Turing

  Art, Mean, Choices Made

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• You can't mine coal without machine guns.

  Richard B. Mellon

  Gun, Coal, Anarchy

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• Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Men, Rights, Needs

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• I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Statistics

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

  Umberto Eco

  Statistics, Interpretation, Novel

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Errors, Pigs, Independence

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• A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

  Danny Hillis

  Cycling, Knights, Broken

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