#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

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#impossible #machines

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

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? ↗

— Jose Saramago

#does #human #human being #killing #kind

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anybody #anymore #back #call #calls

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#built #changed #correctly #environment #function

Joshua Joseph has no real hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces, and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine. Above all, he mistrusts duplication. A rare thing becomes a commonplace thing. A skill becomes a feature. The end is more important than the means. The child of the soul gives place to a product of the system....For anything really important, Joe prefers something with a history, an item which can name the hand which assembled it and will warm to the one that deploys it. A thing of life, rather than one of the many consumer items which humans use to make more clutter; strange parasitic devices with their own little ecosystems. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#machines #moderism #technology #life

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#naked-lunch #thinking #william-burroughs #introspection

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#free #higher #lower #machines #more

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines