“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting. — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the… — John Palfrey Copy Share Image
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“We will become an endangered species in the next century. Machines will take over. Ideas won’t matter. Performance alone will count.” — R.M. DAmato Copy Share Image
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the… — Federico Garcia Lorca 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
I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53) — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
