Machines Quotes

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

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

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

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.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

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

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

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

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

I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

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.

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

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

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

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

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

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

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

I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.

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

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

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.