Machine Quotes

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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. — Alan Perlis
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into… — Bill Joy
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine. — Levon Aronian
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of… — Rush Limbaugh
Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know.… — Thomas Friedman
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in… — Ayn Rand
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river… — Louis L'Amour
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains… — Ambrose Bierce
Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another… — Peter James
Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw. — Yvonne Strahovski
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron,… — Ronnie Wood
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your… — Alfred North Whitehead
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people… — Samuel Williams
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't… — Boris Vallejo
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it… — Sergei Shipov
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. — Bobby Fischer
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders… — David Bronstein
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options… — Garry Kasparov

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