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Anonymous notes that machines can feel like they have a heart that slowly turns to embers. He points out that the world moved from the strict timing of a clock to the unpredictable bounce of a pinball machine. He also says good programs are written so both computers run fast and people can read them easily.

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“All machines know that humans are happiest when they think least.”

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A book is a machine to think with.

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Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

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We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

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As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

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The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

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The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about…

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We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

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Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to…

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A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

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It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her…

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We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely,…

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Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him;…

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Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life…

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We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a…

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“God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the…

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You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you…

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For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us,…

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The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine…

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Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to…

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“In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - "As beatiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table,…

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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would…

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People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and…

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There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement,…

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I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too…

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The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul…

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Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repair man arrives

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Computers are just a machine that are behaved to train you, not for just making you sit idle and let that freaky…

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The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the…

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We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

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If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't…

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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

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One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

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The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.

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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism;…

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices…

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Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor…

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Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection…

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