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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. ”
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. ”
One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. ”
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ”
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. ”
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ”
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”
Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own. ”
A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario. ”
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on. ”