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In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. ”
With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. ”
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. ”
If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families. ”
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. ”
Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She scolds me for cursing, which I love, but she has no problem with ethics. If I say, 'Remind me to rob a bank at 3 P.M.,' she responds, 'Here's your reminder for today at 3 P.M.: Rob a bank. Shall I create it?' ”
I think that documentaries are bound by journalistic ethics, and I think they have the pressure of trying to entertain someone for 90 minutes. It's hard, but it's the same question no matter what you're doing. Every film I've done, I've approached it the same way with the same level of respect. ”
Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine. ”
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going. ”
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”