Machines Quotes - Page 23

• The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Guy, Cruise, Toms

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• Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Memories, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in the era of Roger Ailes as he is of television. And also, of the Twitter era. Of the everything-is-as-reductive-as-it-can-be. To me, the most telling thing is we have a man who cannot complete a sentence. Certainly could never get to 140 characters, or past it. He thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

  Joss Whedon

  Lying, Character, Past

  "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.

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• There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Creating, Creative

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Two, San Francisco, Track

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Ideas, Tape, Window

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Couple, Past, San Francisco

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Long, Track, Delay

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

  Cary Elwes

  Cameras, Radiation, Printing

  "Cary Elwes: Battle Of Wits". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

  Reggie Watts

  Ideas, Voice, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

  Reggie Watts

  Children, Robots, Gadgets

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

  Reggie Watts

  Art, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

  Kate Bush

  Running, Track, Hills

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.

  Audie Cornish

  Voting, Use, Voters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

  Peter Buffett

  Men, Century, Wells

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

  Peter Buffett

  Moving, Hard Work, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually be seen. Everybody knows it's me. I love to hear the machine working.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Training, Borussia Dortmund, I Can

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

  Vladimir Putin

  Nuclear, Logistics, Joints

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

  Howard Rheingold

  Language, Computer, Humans

  Source: medium.com

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• I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Racing, Stories, Done

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Clothes, Singing

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, White, Political

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think Joe [Madison] is right. What we have to do is call him out on every one of these things and then maybe somebody will take the sweet machine away from him.

  Bill Press

  Sweet, Thinking, Madison

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.

  Paul Virilio

  Sex, Eye, Data

  Source: ctheory.net

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