Pastoral Resources

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.