Machines Quotes - Page 11

• What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creativity, Quality, Doe

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• First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Rivers, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

  Marvin Minsky

  Men, Done, Artificial Intelligence

  "Reflections on Artificial Intelligence". Book by Blay Whitby, 1996.

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• I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Thomas Roberts

  Mean, Voting, Slavery

  "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

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• Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

  Venus Williams

  Nerves, Normal

  "Serena struggles with nerves, just like everyone else" by Melissa Isaacson, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2015.

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• I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.

  Hugh Laurie

  Voice, Light, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, World

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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• I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Cogs, Financial, Responsible

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

  Michael Jackson

  World, Requirements, Defining

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• In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

  Ted Cruz

  Gun, Texas, Littles

  FaceBook post by Ted Cruz from Aug 03, 2015

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• In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

  Ernest Cline

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

  Sasha Grey

  Perfect, Childhood, Different

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• Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Hip Hop, Sound

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• The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

  Allen Grossman

  Faces

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• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Maintenance, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Writing, People, Privilege

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

  Jack Benny

  Hurt, Fall, Earthquakes

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• If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

  Charles Handy

  Mean, Promise, Progress

  Charles B. Handy (1995). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, Random House Business Books

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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• I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Fall, Snacks, Candy Bar

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