Famous quotes containing the words dna and/or machines:
“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)