“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big,… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
I don't think enough people have accepted that the machines have already taken over. They are patiently waiting for us to catch… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same… — Jaclyn Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. — Eileen Gray Copy Share Image
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have… — Penny Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures — Norman L Browse Copy Share Image
When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general… — Lazare Carnot Copy Share Image
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image