#machines

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#brighter #came #cannot #central #healthier

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

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#corporate #death #guard #internationalist #learn

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#extensive #great #information #lines #machines

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. ↗

— Christo

#ideas #lots #machines #see #you

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines. ↗

— Julie Doucet

#courage #had #hands #i #machines

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#fed #functional #machines #our #properly

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #communications #cultural #cultural issues #due