Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Maeda

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

K. Eric Drexler

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

K. Eric Drexler

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Kanye West

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

Matt Groening

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

Marshall McLuhan

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...

Nicholas Negroponte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Lydia Lunch

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

Michael Jackson

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

Mark Twain

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Kip Thorne

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

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.

Michael Shermer

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

Nikita Khrushchev

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

Max Weber

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Max Euwe

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

Michio Kaku

This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

Mark Zuckerberg

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Michael Behe

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

Neal Stephenson

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Eric Bana

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

James Baker

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,

George Gilder

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

Jon M. Chu

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.