Computers Quote by H. G. Wells

Are machines getting more and more powerful? Absolutely. It's been going on since 1940. We are making progress, and for many people, it will…

— Moshe Vardi

When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

— Alexander Chase

A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.

— Oren Etzioni

Power which can be abused, will be abused.

— Jim Warner

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

— Duke of Wellington

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a…

— John Stuart Mill

These machines are going to reflect our species and our evolutionary process. Everything we are will end up in these artificially intelligent machines no…

— Gray Scott

We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts…

— Richard Heinberg

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…

— Jacques Barzun

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help…

— Amy Poehler

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala