Quotes by Machines The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. Don Paterson machines poetry art When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better. Don DeLillo machines use average Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. Don Henley machines tools sound The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct. Donald Knuth algorithms machines way My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. Donald Knuth machines style writing The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish. Donald Knuth machines sleep night A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Donna J. Haraway machines reality fiction By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Donna J. Haraway chimera machines century Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. Donna J. Haraway cyborg lively machines Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects. Dora Russell machines prayer answers I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts. Dora Russell machines hatred creative I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess? Douglas Cardinal questioning machines answers Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. Douglas Coupland machines entertainment people We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. Douglas Rushkoff dependent capable machines Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing. Dov Seidman machines data next How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree? Douglas Wilson fruit machines tree Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. Douglas Coupland machines three world The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine. Dov Davidoff atm language-of-love machines When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. Duncan Sheik machines teenager track I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see Dziga Vertov machines eye world «89101112131415161718»
