Computers Quote by Barry Barish

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

— Michel de Montaigne

Machines can break down under pressure. But so can humans.

— Mario Kempes

“The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.”

— Walter Isaacson

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort.…

— Dorothea Lange

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I…

— John von Neumann

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money…

— Stephen Hawking

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

— John von Neumann

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

— David Hanson

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

— B. C. Forbes

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

— Larry Page

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

— Alan Turing

“The second industrial revolution doesn’t present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits…

— Italo Calvino