Quotes About Machines

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

frío, los pitos arromadizados, el humo de las chimeneas, el movimiento de las máquinas, las mismas ondas ventrudas de aquel mar estañado, el vapor que caminaba rumbo a la gran bahía, todo

Why is it so important for some people to think of boppers as mindless machines? Why do zerks laugh at monkeys in a zoo? Why do rich people say that poor people are getting what they deserve? Why don't you show compassion for your fellow creatures? If you drop your selfishness, you can lose your guilt. And, wave it, once your guilt is gone, you won't need to hate.

People are incredibly violent and inflict tremendous pain without even thinking about it. what's really scary is that, to them, violence has no meaning. They aren't being cruel; they are being machines.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

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.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

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

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

So now, having learned from machines, organizations are applying the same logic to people. Letting people in the organization use their best judgment turns out to be faster and cheaper—but only if you hire the right people and reward them for having the right attitude.

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.

They surely are condemned to Hell Who rule their lives by greed and lust And Satan waits for those as well Who in machines repose their trust.

Gradually, he began to understand that the AI community was actually his philosophical enemy. After all, their vision was to replace humans with machines, while he wanted to extend and empower people.

What aspect of operation did we change?" Mimicking his voice I answer, "The measurements, the policies, the procedures. Many of them were cast into behavioral patterns. Lou, don't you see? The real constraints, even in our plant, were not the machines, they were the policies.

Technomancy, which had been in old days the magic of letters and forged things, and was now the magic of words and machines and miscroscopic knives and wires.

His heart is so filled with the love of the machine that it has somewhat crowded out his love of the men who must run it.