Art Quote by Adam Smith

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

— Robert Shea

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Without design thinking, the only sane response to a problem is to make a smaller, "safer" move. Smaller moves don't get you very far.…

— Marty Neumeier

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

— Frank Lloyd Wright

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe…

— Edsger Dijkstra

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with?…

— Alan Turing

“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at…

— Kevin Kelly

Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to do. What…

— Pontus Hulten

Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions…

— Donna J. Haraway

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity…

— Charles Babbage

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

— Yuri Lotman