Machines Quotes
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
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.
As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.
Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.
We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient.
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.
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.
I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.
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.
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
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.
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.
The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.