State Machines

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or machines:

“An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)