Constructs Quote by Umberto Eco

“A journey inward may end in defeat For life as we know it was made by machines”

— Mechina - Impact Proxy

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of…

— Ashley Montagu

“To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that…

— Garth Stein

...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

“Mankind made machines in his own likeness, and used them for his delight and service. The machines had no soul or they had no…

— Catherynne M. Valente

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Although not exceptional in ways we once believed, we remain exceptionally good at building tools and machines. And that includes machines that do what…

— Robert W. Fuller

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better…

— Astro Teller

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

— Fei-Fei Li