Virtual Dos Machines

Famous quotes containing the words virtual, dos and/or machines:

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

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