“What was the problem then? She must try t get hold of something that evaded her. It evaded her when she thought… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“Sarah drops her spent handgun and grabs some crazy-looking lightweight machine gun, the kind of thing I used to believe didn’t exist… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
“We come off the assembly line with the bare essentials needed for existence in this plane and, if we are not ever… — Tyler Turnbull Copy Share Image
I do ironing not only for myself but for everyone at home, everyone in the studio if they want it, and if… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
“For our purposes, the most useful definition comes from George Bekey, who wrote in 2005 that “a robot [is] a machine that… — John M. Jordan Copy Share Image
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
And don’t worry.” Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“...Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“The UFO phenomenon and saga, the first contacts with aliens from extraordinarily advanced civilizations beyond our solar system, and extraterrestrials’ messages, all… — Maximillien de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“The machine seemed to understand time and space, but it didn’t, not as we do. We are analog, fluid, swimming in a… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right?… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Here, my man, just hold it this way, while I look into it a bit," he said one day to Fitz G.,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“Yossarian went to bed early for safety and soon dreamed that he was fleeing almost headlong down an endless wooden staircase, making… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Consider radiology. Technology is going to reduce the use of those machines because doctors aren't going to need to send patients two… — Bruce Broussard Copy Share Image
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“If the laws of nature are unpredictably reassorted at the cusps (the transition from contraction to expansion of the universe), then it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
“In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - "As beatiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
“Twenty years prior to my birth, Marie Curie advocated the use of Radiography in the diagnosis of injuries and treatment of wounded… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except… — John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors have much to answer for. Why? What did they do? …Long ago, they used machines and drugs to keep the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
![“For our purposes, the most useful definition comes from George Bekey, who wrote in 2005 that “a robot [is] a machine that senses, thinks, and acts. Thus, a robot must have sensors, processing ability that emulates some aspects of cognition, and actuators.” quote by John M. Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/717/john-m-jordan-105188_computers_for-our-purposes-the-most-useful-definit_802230.jpg)
![“Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall not be] made to depend on registration in certain parties or in organization which deal with the distribution of employment… It is necessary that humanity turn its gaze toward the…” quote by Pope Pius XII](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5c/pope-pius-xii-10088_access_human-society-is-not-a-machine-and-it-mu_80908.jpg)
