Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

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?

Carol Ann Duffy

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.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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.

David Sedaris

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.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Camille Paglia

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Bill Janklow

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Ninety-eight percent of the work is done by machine. Machines make up for 1,000 people.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Bobby Fischer

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

Bre Pettis

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Dennis Ritchie

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

Edward Abbey

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

Douglas Rushkoff

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Donald Knuth

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Adam Osborne

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

Ross MacDonald

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

There is always a student supervisor, not a personal trainer, on duty. They know how to work the machines properly.

There are probably a significant number of machines that have been compromised and nobody knows.

Scott Erickson

Any new machines that are on the market that run Windows are great.

Ray Bradbury

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

Ray Bradbury

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.

Ralph Merkle

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.