To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.
Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.
The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
Human beings are just gene machines.
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.