The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

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.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

Vigorous writing is concise. 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.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

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.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.