Quotes About Machines

They were in a trench sliding through a forest of corn. Machine stood over the rows, black girders that arced in the sky like the proscenium above a stage. The thought occurred to Wayne that those machines were sprayers, full of poison. They would drench the corn in a lethal rain to keep it from being eaten by invasive species. Those exact words - "invasive species" - rang through his brain. Later the corn would be lightly washed and people would eat it.

You simulate being another human so well that fiction is a far better virtual reality simulator than the machines currently marketed under that name.

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

However, other machines changed the world even more profoundly. These were the machines which made use of the forces of nature instead of manpower.

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.

The argument against recursive procedures was always an efficiency argument: non-re-entrant code could be executed so much more efficiently. But with the advent of multiprogramming another need for felxible storage allocation has emerged. And if there are still machines in which the use of recursive routines is punished by too heavy a penalty, then I would venture the opinion that the structure of such a machine should now be called somewhat old-fashioned.

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.

Ultimate office automation — networked coffee machines.

Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem

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." " 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind

Bir zamanlar, insanlar düÅŸünme iÅŸini makinelere devretmiÅŸ, böylece özgürleÅŸmeyi umut etmiÅŸlerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip baÅŸka insanlar?n onlar? köleleÅŸtirmesine yol açt? sadece.

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative. As

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.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres dedicaban su pensamiento a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les harían libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas les esclavizaran.

Un tempo gli uomini dedicavano il proprio pensiero alle macchine, nella speranza che esse li avrebbero liberati. Ma questo consentì ad altri uomini di servirsi delle macchine per renderli schiavi.

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres solo prestaban atención a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les hicieran libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas los esclavizaran

Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.

machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines, Leto said. Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.