Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Joaquin Phoenix

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

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.

Kevin Ayers

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

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.

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.

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.

Michael Behe

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

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.

The machines got us into this problem. They are going to have to get us out of it.

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

The machines are free. The handling, setup and maintenance is not.

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.

Madeleine L'Engle

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

John F. Kennedy

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

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.