#machines

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#because #connection #considered #demand #government

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#back #blowing #bringing #encores #flashing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. ↗

— Alan Turing

#great #machines #me #surprise #take

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#copy #editors #every #machines #more

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!' ↗

— Kerry Washington

#because #believable #coming #different #fantastic

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines. ↗

— Orville Wright

#did #due #efficient #enthusiastic #experimental

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#family #go #golf #i #machine

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #debris #dialogue

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great. ↗

— Matt Groening

#i #like #machines #pinball #pretty

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#appear #atoms #beings #biological #cells