Machines Quotes - Page 3

• People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

  Mike Myers

  Character, People, Miracle

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• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Space, Impossible

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Tragedy, Gains

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• I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

  Richard Wagner

  Hate, Men, Effort

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• We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Dream, Time

  "Fictional character: Über-Morlock". "The Time Machine", 2002.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  Earl Long

  Sweet, Home, Voting

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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  John Searle

  Umpires, Car, Understanding

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

  Claude Shannon

  Dog, Robots, Humans

  Omni Magazine, 1987.

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• C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

  Dennis Ritchie

  Different, Unix, Portability

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• Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Tools

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• The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

  Dave Rowntree

  Running, Gone, Animation

  "Reanimator". Interview With Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  Adam Osborne

  Software, Hardware, Stills

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• If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Different, Faces, Common

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

  Ralph Merkle

  Environment, Function, Changed

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

  Bill Budge

  Simple, Apples, Special

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• We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

  Philippe Perrin

  Two, Space, Equipment

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Understanding, Statistics

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Entertainment, Form

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• Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

  Alan Turing

  Surprise, Programming, Take Me

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.

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• In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

  Judy Horacek

  Messages, Hell, Left

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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

  Able

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• Our body is a machine for living.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Health, Body, Chiropractic

  War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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• The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

  Will Durant

  Men, Ego, Mind

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