If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.
I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.
I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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.
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. . . . Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
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?
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.
Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine. " In order to even cut the space in your life to pursue what most people literally cannot afford a moment to pursue. So, yeah. I think that not only is that the role of the artist, but it might be a requirement.
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.