Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story. — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine. — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The problems plain to see, too much technology. Machines to save our lives, machines dehumanize. — Styx Copy Share Image
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted. — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I love breasts. I love the female shape. It's crazy - you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but,… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It took me eight years of trial and error to design the machines that would make low-cost pads: just Rs 2 each,… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is… — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it... — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image