State Machines

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or machines:

“Feign then what’s by a decent tact believed
And act that state is only so conceived,
And build an edifice of form
For house where phantoms may keep warm.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)

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