Quotes About Machine

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

Boys and girls," Professor Bhegad said. "Meet Shelley." CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN THE LETHARGIC LIZARD THE MACHINE BARKED a greeting halfway between a brack and a clonk. "You lost me, Professor Bhegad," Marco said.

One of these days, Joe said wrathfully, people like me will rise up and overthrow you, and the end of tyranny by the homeostatic machine will have arrived. The day of human values and compassion and simple warmth will return, and when that happens someone like myself who has gone through an ordeal and who genuinely needs hot coffee to pick him up and keep him functioning when he has to function will get the hot coffee whether he happens to have a postcred readily available or not.

Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his last instruction.

Maybe there's a machine in Berkeley that will save me, too. Perhaps my problems can be automated out of existence.

One of these days, people like me will rise up and overthrow you, and the end of tyranny by the homeostatic machine will have arrived. The day of human values and compassion and simple warmth will return, and when that happens someone like myself who has gone through an ordeal and who genuinely needs hot coffee to pick him up and keep him functioning when he has to function will get the hot coffee whether he happens to have a poscred readily available or not.

A humanoid robot is like any other machine; it can fluctuate between being a benefit and a hazard very rapidly.

Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

They recruited the most supple and athletic of the cops to train as mounted policemen, and a small kid could be mesmerized just watching one who'd been lazing majestically down the street stop to write a parking ticket and then lean way over in the saddle so as to place the ticket under the car's windshield wiper, a physical gesture, if ever there was one, of magnificent condescension to the machine age.

Kafka, of course, would be in a unique position to appreciate the irony of submitting his short stories to this kind of high-efficiency critical machine, the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose smells so pretty.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.

There's a lot of potential for machine learning all around the world. We're seeing it in academia, at other companies, in government.

Your life is nothing, just a little makeshift that you play with for a while, a machine that you put to use. And if something cracks it, then it's cracked, that's all.

Now, where did I leave my time-machine? Oh I know, next Wednesday.

The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.

Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table

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

We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods' promises did not point to or include the divine. Instead, they suggested that we are becoming divine as we develop such amazing intelligence within smaller and smaller devices, so small that a point of Singularity will blur humanity with machine, our minds with eternity. Should we find this inspiring or distressing? What is the telos of technology—the end goal?

Greed is an addiction. It's a machine that must constantly be fed.

One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.

Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI.

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.