#machine

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. ↗

— Boris Vallejo

#bored #clothes #costumes #doing #enjoy

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#cover #covering #her #i #instead

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about. ↗

— Robin Day

#away #become #been #dominated #further

... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused together, but they looked too sophisticated to be merely hard drives. “What on earth is that?” “That’s my Kung Fu,” he said proudly, patting the top of the futuristic-looking stack. “Is that what you wanted to show me?” “No, but it’s impressive, isn’t it?” “If you say so.” Steves sighed and shook his head, so few people could appreciate the intellectual complexity of an almost untraceable hacking device. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#computers #funny #geek #geek-humor #humor

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish. ↗

— James Jones

#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns

Did you know that the fundamental building blocks of life are not cells, are not DNA are not even carbon but language yeah 'cause DNA is just a four-character language and binary code is a two-character language and what these languages are saying is the very act of revealing, so you reach an X-point when language attains a level of complexity where it begins to fold in upon itself trying to understand itself and this is sentience. Did you know that the entire Library of Congress can be encoded in our DNA because all you have to do is translate a binary system into a four-character system to where you can decode the genes like you're searching a microfiche and if you were to genetically engineer the corpus of human knowledge into our DNA then we'd be able to genetically pass the entire library along from generation to generation like frickin' disease, man. ↗

— Ryan Boudinot

#life

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#any #enough #hard #i #into

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#apple #berries #cream #day #eat

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dared #draw #machine #premises #press

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#atomic bomb #begin #bomb #end #engineers