State Machines

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or machines:

“The Apache have a legend that the coyote brought them fire and that the bear in his hibernations communes with the spirits of the “overworld” and later imparts the wisdom gained thereby to the medicine men.”
—Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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