Machines What Quotes

#1. I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen

#2. Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines - what passed in those days for computer terminals.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Havelock Ellis

#4. It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

#5. 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.

Frank Herbert

#6. What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

Poul Anderson

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

Stephen Hawking

#9. What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

John Brunner

#10. These guys get mean waiting on furloughs, beat the machines up good, insurance replaces three batches a month, but destroying machines aint booze and pussy if you know what I mean.

Philip Schultz

#11. If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

Joshua Lederberg

#12. When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

Lazare Carnot

#13. A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they can do per second. But that seems completely irrelevant. We don't know how the brain is organized, how it does what it does.

Stuart J. Russell

#14. The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Donald Knuth

#15. But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

#16. And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Steve Case

#17. 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.

Alan Parsons

#18. 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?'

Nicholas Negroponte

#19. That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream Daddy Issues.

Richard Kadrey

#20. Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Eddie Vedder

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

Claude Shannon

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

Theodore Kaczynski

#23. 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.

Terence McKenna

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

Ray Kurzweil

#25. What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

Gary Marcus

#26. 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?

Matthew B. Crawford

#27. 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.

Woodrow Wilson

#28. Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

Robert Kennedy

#29. I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

Philip K. Dick

#30. In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.

Cal Newport

#31. To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

Horace Mann

#32. The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

R.D. Laing

#33. 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.

Regis Debray

#34. If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

Marc Andreessen

#35. I mean, what if they're us from the future?"
"And it's like The Terminator, right?" I said, rolling my eyes.
"They've come to stop the uprising of the machines. Or maybe they are the machines. Maybe it's Skynet.

Rick Yancey

#36. Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.

Stephanie Strickland

#37. Could be anyone. The Kin. I mean ... it's like calling yourselves the People. It's what pretty much every race-name means. Except for Dalek. That means Metal-Cased Hatey Death Machines in Skaronian.

Neil Gaiman

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

Mason Cooley

#39. To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.

Joshua Cohen

#40. The other thing about moments that are given to us? They're limited. We don't get an endless amount. If you miss them, they're gone. Time machines don't exist; you can't go back and fix what's been broken.

Rachel Van Dyken

#41. The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in the past, so there will be and for the future. But what do we choose is the best question?!

Deyth Banger

#42. 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.

Nick Park

#43. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was
the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

Chris Evert

#44. I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

Warren Mundine

#45. What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Jose Saramago

#46. The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Charles A. Reich

#47. Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#48. Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
But has not answer'd like the apparatus
Of the Humane Society's beginning,
By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

Lord Byron

#49. I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.

AraabMuzik

#50. We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.

Richard Dawkins

#51. He said, "Could be anyone. The Kin. I mean . . . it's like calling yourselves the People. It's what pretty much every race-name means. Except for Dalek. That means Metal-Cased Hatey Death Machines in Skaronian." And

Neil Gaiman

#52. We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

Rodney Brooks

#53. As we cannot hangout with a machine and tell what exactly to do, we just hang a few things out of context and say, "doing this would still do"!

Prakash Hegade

#54. The friendly giant of my childhood, the wise, gentle god who always knew exactly what to do, now lies pale and haggard in a hospital bed with a dizzying array of tubes and wires and beeping machines all around him.

Kendall Ryan

#55. (You think you know suffering? What about life before dishwashers? Washing machines? Tampons? Vacuum cleaners? You have no idea. No idea!)

Magnus Flyte

#56. Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

Wendell Berry

#57. An ironic revelation of the television-computer age is that what people want from machines is humanity: stories, contact, and interaction.

Thomas Lewis

#58. What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

Tucker Max

#59. What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Arthur C. Clarke

#60. You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. 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.

Edward Snowden

#61. Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I've seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#62. So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Ashley Purdy

#64. Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you're doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you're asked to do it quickly and efficiently.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#65. As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built,
as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?

Natasha Tsakos

#66. We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

Fady Joudah

#67. cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties," she wrote. They get their order from below; they are learning machines, pattern recognizers - even when the patterns they respond to are unhealthy ones.

Steven Johnson

#68. Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Oriana Fallaci

#69. 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.

William Kentridge

#70. People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They're cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

Hayao Miyazaki

#71. How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

John C. Havens

#72. How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?

Jonathan Crary

#73. This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

Michio Kaku

#74. 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.

Richard Dawkins

#75. What makes us humans? We are not good or bad. We are yes, no, and maybe all at once. Machines are neither good or back either. It is the people using them who make the distinction.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#76. I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do ... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.

William Klein

#77. 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.

Sebastiao Salgado

#78. As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise - by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Babbage

#79. The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.

Peter Drucker

#80. anyway I think he has not much grit, not much plain courage alone in a tight place without a lot of slaves and machines and things, if you know what I mean. Very

J.R.R. Tolkien

#81. (in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.

Kyle Mills

#82. To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers

Alain Badiou

#83. And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

Peter Watts

#84. Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking care of my body. I have to treat my body like a machine. What you put in it is what you'll get out of it.

Sebastian Telfair

#85. Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

Terence McKenna

#86. I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, "Man is the measure", and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.

E. M. Forster

#87. Previously chewed meals. Cub held up one labeled "Monster Machines," but she shook her head. "That's not really what Preston

Barbara Kingsolver

#88. Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

John Stuart Mill

#89. You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

Janeane Garofalo

#90. Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

Fady Joudah

#91. That's what songs are, right? They are little time machines that transport us to a moment that you cannot forget.

S.M. Bailey

#92. What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Stephen Hawking

#93. One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest.

Robert Desnos

#94. If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines
to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

Elizabeth Smart

#95. Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging - to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

Jessica Livingston

#96. 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?

Charles A. Reich

#97. Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Walter Benjamin

#98. In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

Richard Cecil

#99. Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

Charles A. Reich

#100. 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.

John Von Neumann