#machines

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

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

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#animation #days #gone #graphics #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

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#because #been #collaboration #desktop #ditch

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

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus ↗

— Rick Riordan

#machines #the-lost-hero #heroes