Machines Quotes · Page 20

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

— Frank Herbert

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

— Roger Glover

A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.

— Michael Kirby

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

— Gary Marcus

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

— Alan Turing

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

— Jeff Bezos

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

— Alan Turing

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

— Miles Davis

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we…

— Miguel de Icaza

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I…

— Demetri Martin

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of…

— George S. Patton

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

— W. H. Auden

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.

— Rodney Dangerfield

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

— Marshall McLuhan

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on…

— Dora Russell

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

— Anna D. Shapiro

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if…

— Garry Kasparov

Some people are very much comfortable working out in gyms. Basically, it is all about movement. If you are comfortable moving in…

— Milind Soman

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips…

— Ivan Illich

No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even…

— Nikola Tesla

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the…

— David Hanson

Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to…

— Bob Frankston

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of…

— Umberto Eco

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a…

— Scott McNealy

You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your…

— Sylvia Plath

Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or…

— John F. Kennedy

“Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they…

— Jean Baudrillard

And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction…

— Terence McKenna

A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone…

— J. C. R. Licklider

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed…

— Slavoj Žižek

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are…

— Adam Smith

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

— Stephen Hawking

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Anonymous

My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

— Wynonna Judd

One of my favorite albums that I've been listening to lately is 'Midnight Machines' by Lights.

— Kiana Madeira

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

— John W. Campbell

“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.”

— Amit Kalantri

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

— Stanley Kubrick