Machines Quotations | Page 3

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

The other thing I heard from people a lot was that they were amazed that $212 million had gone through those machines than the fact that the state got so little. People were amazed at the amount of money that could have gone into the economy.

Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says.

When you take into account the fact that a large enterprise might have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines, the job of securing those machines is very difficult and keeping them secure over time is even more difficult still.

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

What happens is that the cane gets toppled, then the stalks get twisted, and they'll have to use machines to carry out the harvest.

We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.

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.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.

You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England; exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities; and much, much more.

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

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

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

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

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

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

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

We want them to be regular customers of Atlantic City before slot machines come into Pennsylvania.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

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

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

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

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.

Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it,

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like your broken.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

What the NFL and Reebok wanted was to find some company that was very reliable ... and has world-class, top-notch machines that will not break down.

We decided she had to be there. He's home and doing better now after three or four days on machines that did his breathing for him. Now that she has found him, Sonny needs more time with him before he dies.

We tried something different on Monday and Thursday. We used four cages and the machines had four different types of pitches. We had lots of repetition, lots of cuts.

All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

The purpose creates the machine.

We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call [them] machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

This prospect of machines at Aqueduct sent shockwaves through industry. You're talking about a potential for huge differences in purses - maybe doubling. I think Mr. Decker is right when he says it's a matter of when the machines will spread.

This prospect of machines at Aqueduct sent shockwaves through industry, ... You're talking about a potential for huge differences in purses - maybe doubling. I think Mr. Decker is right when he says it's a matter of when the machines will spread.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

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?

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.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick