#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

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#although #building #companies #couple #did

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. ↗

— Jose C. Orozco

#could #earth #fashion #into #iron

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#know #machines #mathematician #more #need

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#hackers #machines #new #opened #others

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love

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