Jon Kabat-Zinn

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

American Educator

Baba Kalyani

Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

Indian Businessman

Jed Mercurio

There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out.

British Writer

Atom Egoyan

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

Canadian Director

Bill Scott

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

American Actor

Frankie Boyle

The truth is that modern governments sit at the head of a well-funded security apparatus. They are told that foreign military adventures put domestic populations at risk and they give them the thumbs up anyway.

Scottish Comedian

Al Gore

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

American Vice President

Robert Smithson

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

American Artist

Lyor Cohen

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

American Businessman

Nelson Algren

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

American Novelist

The term 'apparatus' often refers to complex setups, not simple tools.

Context Specific

'Apparatus' usually suggests a system or set, not a single gadget.

Not a Gadget

'Apparatus' is generally used in formal or professional contexts.

Professional Use

When applied to organizations, 'apparatus' implies complex bureaucracy.

Bureaucratic Nuance

Referring to 'apparatus' can suggest impersonality in organizational context.

Impersonal Structures

It often refers to components not visible from the outside.

Inner Workings

In biology, it denotes a complex of body organs or structures.

Biological Systems

It emphasizes the collective function rather than individual organs.

Functional Unity

 You're mad. That's an unfair offer, and you know what an unfair offer is. This is the kind of game done by my lab and many around the world. That just gives you an example of the kind of thing that these games probe. The interesting thing is, these games require that you have a lot of cognitive apparatus on line. You have to be able to come to the table with a proper model of another person.

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 is we have an apparatus around which there is a rope, a single rope. And if you pull on this side of the rope, the rope disappears on the other side. So two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time, and pull. Otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears. The first tape you're going to see

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 plot makes is we have an apparatus around of which there's a rope a single rope and if you pull on this side of the Rope the rope disappears on the other side so two elephants need to pick it up at exactly the same time and pull otherwise nothing is going to happen and the rope disappears so the first tape

 paper birch, Douglas fir, and western red cedar. I figured the birch and the fir would be connected in a belowground web, but not the cedar. It was in its own other world. And I gathered my apparatus, and I had no money, so I had to do it on the cheap.

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 They used a cycle, they put together a breathing apparatus. And this breathing apparatus now saved the life, and she's very welcome. There's a whole range of innovations that we have. A car, which runs on compressed air with six paisa per kilometer.

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 And what it means is we really are Bayesian inference machines. As we go around, we learn about statistics of the world and lay that down, but we also learn about how noisy our own sensory apparatus is, and then combine those in a real Bayesian way.

Daniel Wolpert: The real...

 They posed an existential threat to no one. But we rearranged our entire national security apparatus in the most sweeping way since the end of the Second World War. We launched two wars. We spent trillions of dollars. We suspended our values.

How fear drives American...

 exercise under wraps the massive media apparatus of the UN was never employed to tell the world what was afoot the secretary-general made the occasional reference in speeches but mostly his conduct mirrored his approach to all

Advocating for gender...

 for there to be something more and I think illusions played that human curiosity if the world as we see it right now is just a construct a rendering of our brains or sexual apparatus low resolution to the images

Jason Silva on Illusion...

 tubing called xylem it's filled with water and if i use this apparatus with a probe which goes into the trunk there i can actually hear the water passing along those tubes

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