‘Top Chef’ is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine – 100s of words a day.
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
People do need to stay healthy and eat right to keep the body fit and functioning. But, our sweet tooth is a part of this wonderful machine, so we have to honor it and spoil it from time to time… to time.
No one rocks a heavy machine gun like Michelle Rodriguez.
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine.
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren’t always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design – the machine will itself take over in making further steps.
I’m not a machine. I don’t see why people demand more of me than of other players.
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He’s like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
The 3DS is a fantastic machine with more than 1,000 games. Its key differentiator is the 3D immersive experience without need for glasses. But as good as that machine is, you can’t play a game like ‘Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ on it.
I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I’m more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
I think, definitely, I was hugely influenced by – obviously like Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But also, there were a lot of influences from my dad, like singer-songwriters of the ’70s like Carole King and James Taylor.
I don’t know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I’ll give you sexy. Put me at a dinner table with some candlelight and the moon shining in and, oh, I will give you dork.
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn’t think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that’s my stock. That’s how I want my kids to be too.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don’t think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I’m a trained health machine.
Your body is your machine – you need your fuel.
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
Want to train a machine translation system? Train it on a gazillion pairs of sentences of parallel corpora, and that creates a lot of breakthrough results. Increasingly, I’m seeing results on small data where you want to try to take in results even if you have 1,000 images.
I want to keep the whole ‘Lace Up’ movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.
I don’t know that you can set out to be a brand. For us, it happened very organically, and we never rushed it or leaned on it too hard. I felt a true culture had started to emerge several years into the Machine, so we started trying some things, starting with simple stuff like cool merch.
A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it’s not about you, it’s about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.
I’m not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!
Don’t let yourself get stuck without a healthy snack option. If you allow yourself to get famished at work, you’re going to be more likely to get your snack from the vending machine, and when was the last time you saw something fresh and healthy in one of those?
If you’re an app, how do you keep people hooked? Turn yourself into a slot machine.
The main song I listened to with the ‘Firebird’ books was ‘Breath of Life’ by Florence + the Machine.
It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don’t have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
The jogging machine makes me go insane with boredom.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
‘Fast & Furious’ is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they’re doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world.
I’m not a machine.
I’ve wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the ‘Machine’ record.
I’ve seen a lot of people skipping warm-up and hitting the cardio machine, but that’s not right. It’s important to dedicate 15 minutes of warm-up time before exercise, and after exercise.
Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI.
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
This is the first real evidence that we’ve seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the velocity of light, smashing into each other, and making the geometry of space-time turn into some sort of washing machine.
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
We think machine learning, as it relates to healthcare and life sciences, is extraordinary.
We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.
A car is a killing machine. It’s like waving a loaded gun. People don’t realise how dangerous they are.
I’m not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.
You know, if you ever listen to your voice on an answering machine everyone thinks we sound dreadful. That’s sort of the way I think when I hear myself speak.
Pulitzers are journalist-oriented, so the publicity machine kicks in for about two days. Then, you go back to normal.
It’s so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
I knew I had to get out. It wasn’t a good place to be in. ‘Home and Away’ is a great place to learn, but it’s a machine, and it can chew people up and spit them out.
Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.
