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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

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

— Sharyn McCrumb

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate…

— Robertson Davies

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

— James Marcus

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

— Leo Rosten

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

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

— Stephen Hawking

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a…

— Ellen Goodman

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

— Rodney Brooks

A machine helps us to annihilate our weaknesses. We don't have a steady hand. We can lose all vigilance. We can be distracted by…

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Jack Conte