Machines Quotes

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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
The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already… — Martin Heidegger
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
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased, — James Baker
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 — 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
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It… — Ernest Hemingway
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing… — John W. Gardner
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as… — Federico Garcia Lorca
A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop. — Ed Eyestone
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.… — George Carlin
There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and… — Julia Roberts

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