Machines Quotes - Page 24

• Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God.

  Paul Virilio

  Religious, Thinking, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Order, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.

  Paul Virilio

  Memories, Powerful, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.

  Paul Virilio

  Reading, Giving, Deployment

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the events that took place in the Kosovo War were a total confirmation of the thesis of The Vision Machine.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Vision, Events

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

  Gary Busey

  Air, Pants, Saws

  Source: www.clydefitchreport.com

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• We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

  Edward Snowden

  Goes On, Safe, Bugs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better and cheaper. And Trump can't do anything to change that.

  Nicholas Bloom

  School, Trump, Probability

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Mirrors, Hands

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.

  William Gibson

  Eight, Years, Two

  Source: craphound.com

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• Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

  Raoul Peck

  Gay, Novelty, Minorities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Thinking, Brain

  Source: reason.com

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• I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Strong, Men, Rapper

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Passing By, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.

  Murray Bookchin

  Party, Order, Political

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• We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

  Michael Lewis

  Hands, Stories, Facts

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

  Neal Brennan

  Writing, Victory, Hitting

  Interview With Jazmine Hill, www.serialoptimist.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously on the other side of the comedy/drama equation.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Drama, Pride

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, People, Perception

  Source: www.osnews.com

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• My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was able to step right into Dance Theatre of Harlem and felt like he was in a show called "Omnibus" and "American Dance Machine."

  Mahershala Ali

  New York, Dad, Car

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Motocross might be more dangerous because it's hard to tame the machine sometimes. Wrestling, you're dealing with yourself and your own body, but when you're trying to tame the machine, that sh*t can be kind of hard sometimes.

  Jeff Hardy

  Wrestling, Trying, Body

  Source: www.ign.com

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• This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people.

  Donald Trump

  Running, People, Cabinets

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There is zero chaos, we are running - this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince [Priebus] is doing a good job but half his job is putting out lies by the press.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Jobs, Zero

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its way through all those rules, and that takes a lot of processing. So AI works best when a small computer is using it on a small problem - your car's anti-lock brakes are based on AI. Or you need to use a giant computer on a big problem - like IBM using a room-size machine to compete against humans on Jeopardy in 2011.

  Kevin Maney

  Small Problems, Car, Giants

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• Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please make something like this." He said, "Don't show me such an ugly design sketch." But he also said, "You've got the right idea. I totally agree that the time has come when we can make the ultimate mobile machine."

  Masayoshi Son

  Jobs, Hands, Ideas

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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