Machine Quotes

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Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and… — Minor White
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will… — Isaac Asimov
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do… — Isaac Asimov
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. — Margaret Sanger
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. — B.F. Skinner
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is… — Sol LeWitt
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid,… — Charles Babbage
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed… — Charles Babbage
I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me… — Thom Yorke
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation… — Oskar Schlemmer
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. — Sol LeWitt
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic… — Poul Anderson
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do… — Chuck Mangione
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against… — Ian Fleming
I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly â€” and with… — Kay Ryan
It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became… — Paul Watson

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