Computers Quote by Alastair Reynolds

“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how…

— Jessica Riskin

“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us…

— Nick Bostrom

“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of…

— Harry M. Collins

“Machine Man faithfully believes that conscious intelligent life came by chance from unconscious, dumb and dead matter that nobody suddenly made out of nothing…

— Arne Klingenberg

“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.”

— Allan Wesler

“Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.”

— Umberto Eco

“Mankind made machines in his own likeness, and used them for his delight and service. The machines had no soul or they had no…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The ultimate potential of machine intelligence is, of course, vastly greater than that of organic intelligence.”

— Nick Bostrom

“I now suspect that if we work with machines the world will seem to us to be a machine, but if we work with…

— Wendell Berry

“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good…

— Carl Sagan

“Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And don't give me any sentimental nonsense about creativity. I believe that a Universal Turing Machine could show behaviors that we would construe as…

— Neal Stephenson