Machines Quotes - Page 13

• Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

  Charles Handy

  Real, Mean, Land

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• My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen chairs. She is kind of like a furry ball in a pinball machine...she bumps into something and then just turns and moves on...it makes me smile - although i know it's just not that funny. I think i laugh because what i really feel like doing, is crying

  Jann Arden

  Sweet, Moving, Cat

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• The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

  Nick Bostrom

  Men, Needs, Lasts

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.20, OUP Oxford

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• Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Political, Acting

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• We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

  Christopher Alexander

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Body, Care, Way

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• I am not bald - my head is just a solar panel for a sex machine.

  Telly Savalas

  Sex, Solar Panels

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• If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Minimum Wage, Raises

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican Presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Character, Mean

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• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

  Terence McKenna

  Dog, Writing, Technology

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• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Political, Inanimate Objects

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hollywood, Culture

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos.

  Heidi Klum

  Girl, Fashion, Fun

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• At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Couple, Years, Office

  "Brains, Blood, and BBQ: Welcome to Greg Nicotero’s Zombie School". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. March 2014.

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• If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Perspective, Soldier

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Minutes, Communicate

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

  Tucker Max

  People, Industry, Movie Industry

  Interview with Rick Mele, www.askmen.com. November 23, 2009.

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• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Barbarians, Toys

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• When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.

  Len Morgan

  Sigh Of Relief, Wings, Weather

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• This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

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• I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Important, Stones, Aviation

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