Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marcel Pagnol

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

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.

Christopher Walken

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

Anna Friel

There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

Ambrose Bierce

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Douglas Rushkoff

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

Andy Warhol

I want to be a machine.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Kimberley Nixon

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Wally Schirra

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's quite normal. It's not a macho thing -- it's something that can happen.

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Biz Stone

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

Bill Gates

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

Phil Schiller

There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.

Mitt Romney

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

Steve Jobs

We know Mac OS X is not perfect,

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Kevin Ayers

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

Emile Hirsch

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Eric S. Raymond

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Eric S. Raymond

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Heinz Pagels

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.