#machines

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#becoming #central #decisions #guarantee #increasingly

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#flight #heavier #impossible #insignificant #machines

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#called #dreams #forward #machines #memories

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #confer #hated #hideous #impose

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bird #closest #come #flying #machines

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

— Nicholson Baker

#first #given #machines #master #shoes

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#away #down #drag #forget #havoc