What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine – and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there’s some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
I want to be a machine.
My body is a baby machine.
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
A house is not a machine! It’s something else for living – but not a machine.
The body is an amazing machine… If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they’re really tied into each other. They’ve been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.
‘The Conversation’ was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine – a KEM editing machine. I’ve been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
As far as what is the line between human and machine? That’s a great question.
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I’m having dinner with.
I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.
I am a member of the human race. There’s a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don’t know who is talking to you, if it’s a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.
Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.
I had a ‘Cats’ phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.
I love to gamble, always have! In Georgia there is not a casino, so the closest thing to a slot machine is a scratch ticket!
The super awesomeness would be a portable teleportation machine that I could take with me. I go wherever I want, and then I can go from there to wherever I want. Instantly. Without having to go through TSA. One can wish.
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body – and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that’s fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you’re done… or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
When you watch a movie, you don’t want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn’t know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.
It’s the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
I’ve never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don’t need to do that.
California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.
I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, ‘Wow.’ Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
We are organized, we are moving forward, and the Clinton machine may not like it, but we’re prepared for the fight.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
The song ‘Paradigm’ talks about nanobots – and how they can potentially be used to cure diseases and help you live forever. But how much of a human being would you be at that point? If you’re 70 percent machine and 30 percent human, are you going to lose yourself?
When an old tape machine makes pitch wobble, some people would say that compromises fidelity and would try to get rid of it. But to me that wobble adds richness, it instantly brings back the feelings you associate with old recordings.
During the day I’ll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we’re on the road.
I honestly always thought my Master’s in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!
Virtual reality is the ‘ultimate empathy machine.’ These experiences are more than documentaries. They’re opportunities to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.
Britain’s passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times – both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
‘Grey’s’ is just a machine. I wasn’t really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.
I don’t want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn’t get paid for it, I wouldn’t act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You’re a very small cog in a big machine.
When the term ‘machine gun’ enters common parlance, the word ‘machine’ becomes much more sinister.
A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
Games already pretty much have reached the point of photo-realism. Working on more intense graphics is not the only path we can take anymore. Simply relying on the sheer horsepower of the machine will not bring the industry a bright future.
As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.
You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them – twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.
I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
I have the Internet, but the first that happens with it is my machine will crash. I get by when it’s operating. What would I know about updating?
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
We’ve become so successful that it’s become a machine: There’s a lot of people relying on you. You’ve got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.
If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant’s idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it’s an evolved machine that we carry with us.
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it absolutely terrifying that – something about the way the machine just kind of coughed up money with no difficulty.
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
I don’t understand why we’re all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.
One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can’t bring your laptop, or don’t want to. But working on somebody else’s machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
