Build Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and…

— Charles Eisenstein

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

— Keith Rabois

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

— Susan Orlean

Happy life with the machines scattered around the room. Look what they made; they made it for me... happy technology!

— DJstanford

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

— Frank Herbert

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

— John von Neumann

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

— Raymond Loewy

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

— Simone Weil

“so efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise”

— Neal Stephenson

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I…

— John von Neumann

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

— Barry Barish