Computers Quote by John von Neumann

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

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

— Simone Weil

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort.…

— Dorothea Lange

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

— Moshe Vardi

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

— Azzedine Alaia

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as…

— Rodney Brooks

You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.

— Madeline Brewer

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

— Fuzzy Zoeller

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one…

— E. B. White

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

— Freeman Dyson

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works…

— K. Eric Drexler

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

— Susan Orlean