Arbitrary Quote by Donald A. Norman

People are not machines. And we have to respect that.

— Jack Conte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

— Nicholas Negroponte

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...

— Anonymous

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

— Nicholas Negroponte

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do…

— Isaac Asimov

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

— Richard Burton

“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

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that…

— Arthur Young

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

— James William Benson

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

— Clive James