Computers Quote by John W. Campbell Download Open image “Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.” — John W. Campbell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Helping Machines Menace Statistics
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 Copy Share Image
The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
