One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles,… — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I now value everyday functionality like walking, talking and breathing on your own with no assistance from a medical professional or machines.… — Al B. Sure 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
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
I turn on the machines and start to think about ideas and take it from there, it usually begins if it's a… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations… — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about… — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
