Quotes about Machines

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. Votes: 4

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. Votes: 4

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Votes: 4

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. Votes: 4

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. Votes: 4

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. Votes: 4

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all. Votes: 4

Machines don't use machines. Votes: 3

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Votes: 3

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines. Votes: 3

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective. Votes: 3

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find. Votes: 3

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile. Votes: 3

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people. Votes: 3

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. Votes: 3

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years. Votes: 3

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. Votes: 3

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased, Votes: 3

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure. Votes: 3

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. Votes: 3

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom. Votes: 3

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. Votes: 3

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. Votes: 3

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. Votes: 3

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? Votes: 3

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill. Votes: 3

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. Votes: 3

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods. Votes: 3

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper Votes: 3

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. Votes: 3

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. Votes: 3

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. Votes: 3

I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines]. Votes: 3

A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer. Votes: 3

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve. Votes: 3

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. Votes: 3

Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die. Votes: 3

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Votes: 2

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. Votes: 2

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Votes: 2

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. Votes: 2

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. Votes: 2

In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you. Votes: 2

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. Votes: 2

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. Votes: 2

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. Votes: 2

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 2

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. Votes: 2

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. Votes: 2

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. Votes: 2

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that? Votes: 2

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. Votes: 2

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. Votes: 2

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. Votes: 2

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Votes: 2

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. Votes: 2

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way. Votes: 2

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new Votes: 2

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. Votes: 2

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still. Votes: 2

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. Votes: 2

When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites. Votes: 2

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. Votes: 2

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines. Votes: 2

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. Votes: 2

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. Votes: 2

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Votes: 2

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Votes: 2

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. Votes: 2

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. Votes: 2

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. Votes: 2

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. Votes: 2

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. Votes: 2

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world. Votes: 2

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. Votes: 2

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. Votes: 2

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. Votes: 2

Remember, machines don't forgive. Votes: 0

We are not thinking machines... Votes: 0

People are machines of forgetfulness Votes: 0

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Votes: 0

Human beings are just gene machines. Votes: 0

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. Votes: 0

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics Votes: 0

Animals often strike us as passionate machines. Votes: 0

The soul paints itself in our machines. Votes: 0

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes. Votes: 0

Slot machines are like crack for old people. Votes: 0

You can't trust machines. You can't trust people. Votes: 0

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines. Votes: 0

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines. Votes: 0

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines. Votes: 0

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. Votes: 0

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. Votes: 0

I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines. Votes: 0

I don't use machines - animals don't use machines. Votes: 0

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church]. Votes: 0

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes. Votes: 0

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines. Votes: 0

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines Votes: 0

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. Votes: 0

Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package- Debora Geary Votes: 0

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans. Votes: 0

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines. Votes: 0

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great. Votes: 0

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. Votes: 0

We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people. Votes: 0

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines. Votes: 0

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? Votes: 0

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home. Votes: 0

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines. Votes: 0

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing! Votes: 0

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines. Votes: 0

That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues. Votes: 0

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. Votes: 0

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines. Votes: 0

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Votes: 0

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. Votes: 0

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. Votes: 0

When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines Votes: 0

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. Votes: 0

I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live. Votes: 0

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! Votes: 0

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. Votes: 0

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper. Votes: 0

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Votes: 0

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. Votes: 0

Tough is to innovate; else you are just competing with photocopy machines. Votes: 0

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year Votes: 0

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life. Votes: 0

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. Votes: 0

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. Votes: 0

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. Votes: 0

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. Votes: 0

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. Votes: 0

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing. Votes: 0

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. Votes: 0

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do. Votes: 0

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs. Votes: 0

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. Votes: 0

In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth. Votes: 0

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them! Votes: 0

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. Votes: 0

Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore. Votes: 0

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them. Votes: 0

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines. Votes: 0

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines Votes: 0

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. Votes: 0

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. Votes: 0

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. Votes: 0

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. Votes: 0

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. Votes: 0

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. Votes: 0

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. Votes: 0

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. Votes: 0

At my age getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines Votes: 0

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you. Votes: 0

Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out. Votes: 0

I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines... Votes: 0

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. Votes: 0

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. Votes: 0

So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves. Votes: 0

I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines! Votes: 0

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output. Votes: 0

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. Votes: 0

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus Votes: 0

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. Votes: 0

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. Votes: 0

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines? Votes: 0

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. Votes: 0

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. Votes: 0

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use. Votes: 0

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines. Votes: 0

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole. Votes: 0

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. Votes: 0

Heaven is a home without the machines or gods. Hell is a home without love. Votes: 0

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. Votes: 0

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call. Votes: 0

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. Votes: 0

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. Votes: 0

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Votes: 0

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions. Votes: 0

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people. Votes: 0

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. Votes: 0

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel. Votes: 0

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines. Votes: 0

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. Votes: 0

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. Votes: 0

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines. Votes: 0

Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go. Votes: 0

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. Votes: 0

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can. Votes: 0

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. Votes: 0

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. Votes: 0

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. Votes: 0

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead. Votes: 0

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big. Votes: 0

I love the machines and I cannot allow them and the humans of Twinmortal to suffer.-Hanshin Votes: 0

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house. Votes: 0

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them. Votes: 0

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time. Votes: 0

We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient, Votes: 0

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines. Votes: 0

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. Votes: 0

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that. Votes: 0

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men. Votes: 0

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. Votes: 0

Our bodies are finely tuned machines, and if our hormone mixtures aren't 'just right', everything goes into disrepair. Votes: 0

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. Votes: 0

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them. Votes: 0

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. Votes: 0

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. Votes: 0

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. Votes: 0

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. Votes: 0

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. Votes: 0

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. Votes: 0

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. Votes: 0

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is? Votes: 0

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. Votes: 0

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women. Votes: 0

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines. Votes: 0

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. Votes: 0

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. Votes: 0

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t. Votes: 0

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. Votes: 0

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating. Votes: 0

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. Votes: 0

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines. Votes: 0

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines. Votes: 0

I will never buy a fish tank, because I don't believe in supporting the funding of aquatic war machines. Votes: 0

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. Votes: 0

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves. Votes: 0

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. Votes: 0

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf. Votes: 0

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice. Votes: 0

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly. Votes: 0

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303 Votes: 0

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? Votes: 0

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. Votes: 0

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds? Votes: 0

We're damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet. Votes: 0

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands. Votes: 0

The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls. Votes: 0

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. Votes: 0

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. Votes: 0

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. Votes: 0

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription. Votes: 0

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines. Votes: 0

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines! Votes: 0

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Votes: 0

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something. Votes: 0

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. Votes: 0

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies. Votes: 0

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling Votes: 0

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. Votes: 0

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. Votes: 0

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally. Votes: 0

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. Votes: 0

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. Votes: 0

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created. Votes: 0

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance. Votes: 0

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them. Votes: 0

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. Votes: 0

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. Votes: 0

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. Votes: 0

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. Votes: 0

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. Votes: 0

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... Votes: 0

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines. Votes: 0

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms, Votes: 0

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines. Votes: 0

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? Votes: 0

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off. Votes: 0

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. Votes: 0

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines... Votes: 0

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. Votes: 0

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights. Votes: 0

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings. Votes: 0

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. Votes: 0

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders. Votes: 0

I give 110% in love. If that seems absurd, just know that I used presidential voting machines to calculate that number. It's totally legit. Votes: 0

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. Votes: 0

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America. Votes: 0

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do. Votes: 0

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. Votes: 0

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? Votes: 0

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines. Votes: 0

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us. Votes: 0

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines. Votes: 0

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think. Votes: 0

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth... Votes: 0

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens. Votes: 0

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. Votes: 0

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. Votes: 0

Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. Votes: 0

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them. Votes: 0

I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur Votes: 0

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines. Votes: 0

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability. Votes: 0

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. Votes: 0

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate Votes: 0

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia. Votes: 0

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines. Votes: 0

Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing. Votes: 0

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. Votes: 0

Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead of Macs. Votes: 0

[Software engineering is the] establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently. Votes: 0

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature. Votes: 0

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. Votes: 0

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men. Votes: 0

My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials. Votes: 0

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. Votes: 0

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.' Votes: 0

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001. Votes: 0

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection. Votes: 0

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger. Votes: 0

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. Votes: 0

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. Votes: 0

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well. Votes: 0

I wonder"¦," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future? Votes: 0

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. Votes: 0

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. Votes: 0

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television. Votes: 0

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. Votes: 0

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time. Votes: 0

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. Votes: 0

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. Votes: 0

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee. Votes: 0

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability. Votes: 0

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails. Votes: 0

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them. Votes: 0

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better. Votes: 0

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. Votes: 0

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan. Votes: 0

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. Votes: 0

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also. Votes: 0

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that Votes: 0

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well. Votes: 0

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 0

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it. Votes: 0

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience. Votes: 0

A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs. Votes: 0

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors. Votes: 0

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone. Votes: 0

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking. Votes: 0

People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap. Votes: 0

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines? Votes: 0

We are survival machines "“ robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Votes: 0

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. Votes: 0

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. Votes: 0

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer. Votes: 0

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery. Votes: 0

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines. Votes: 0

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions. Votes: 0

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. Votes: 0

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things. Votes: 0

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters. Votes: 0

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used. Votes: 0

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result. Votes: 0

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything. Votes: 0

i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway. Votes: 0

The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s. Votes: 0

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. Votes: 0

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them. Votes: 0

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. Votes: 0

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good. Votes: 0

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis. Votes: 0

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. Votes: 0

We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place. Votes: 0

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. Votes: 0

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. Votes: 0

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast. Votes: 0

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about. Votes: 0

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. Votes: 0

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. Votes: 0

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body. Votes: 0

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with? Votes: 0

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are. Votes: 0

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite. Votes: 0

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology. Votes: 0

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Votes: 0

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible. Votes: 0

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines. Votes: 0

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. Votes: 0

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. Votes: 0

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory. Votes: 0

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions. Votes: 0

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth. Votes: 0

By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content. Votes: 0

In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer. Votes: 0

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you. Votes: 0

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. Votes: 0

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines. Votes: 0

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb. Votes: 0

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation. Votes: 0

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. Votes: 0

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold. Votes: 0

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. Votes: 0

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music. Votes: 0

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks. Votes: 0

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid! Votes: 0

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction. Votes: 0

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects. Votes: 0

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do. Votes: 0

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it... Votes: 0

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. Votes: 0

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer. Votes: 0

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Votes: 0

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it. Votes: 0

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts. Votes: 0

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern. Votes: 0

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. Votes: 0

I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s. Votes: 0

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines. Votes: 0

I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that. Votes: 0

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties. Votes: 0

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan Votes: 0

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!' Votes: 0

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business. Votes: 0

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood? Votes: 0

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers. Votes: 0

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. Votes: 0

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day. Votes: 0

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. Votes: 0

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. Votes: 0

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines. Votes: 0

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. Votes: 0

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used. Votes: 0

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters. Votes: 0

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can. Votes: 0

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect. Votes: 0

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! Votes: 0

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines. Votes: 0

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work. Votes: 0

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on. Votes: 0

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life. Votes: 0

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road. Votes: 0

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. Votes: 0

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh. Votes: 0

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential. Votes: 0

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue"”or rather by vice"”of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines Votes: 0

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you. Votes: 0

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working. Votes: 0

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly. Votes: 0

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines. Votes: 0

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict. Votes: 0

I know it's stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines. Votes: 0

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines. Votes: 0

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation. Votes: 0

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. Votes: 0

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger. Votes: 0

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable. Votes: 0

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you're not playing games. Votes: 0

I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good. Votes: 0

The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat. Votes: 0

Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways. Votes: 0

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord. Votes: 0

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products." Votes: 0

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. Votes: 0

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines. Votes: 0

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? Votes: 0

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. Votes: 0

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness. Votes: 0

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential. Votes: 0

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath. Votes: 0

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it. Votes: 0

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live? Votes: 0

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. Votes: 0

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. Votes: 0

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. Votes: 0

Positive attitude enables you to go with passion and see possibility in every challenging circumstance. It was by that, that great achievers picked up metal scraps on the floor and saw machines built from it. Votes: 0

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. Votes: 0

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man. Votes: 0

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis. Votes: 0

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. Votes: 0

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel. Votes: 0

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. Votes: 0

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns. Votes: 0

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases. Votes: 0