#machine

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#first #given #machines #master #shoes

I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good. ↗

— Pat Bowlen

#bike #good #i #i do #leg

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#images #machine #smash

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#else #get #hold #invariably #machinery

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#complex #connection #describe #forever #how

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. ↗

— John Searle

#argue #car #computer #exactly #i

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. ↗

— John Searle

#adding #analogy #attribute #cars #cognitive

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#down #experiences #fax #few #find

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts