Machines Quotes - Page 15

• These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Common Sense, Trying

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1973). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Black, Wipe

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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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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• I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so important for me to make it by hand - whether it's a pasta dough or a pâte brisée. You become involved in it. You become personal with it. For me it's such a wonderful way to get satisfaction and gratification when I'm cooking.

  Thomas Keller

  Hands, Cooking, Important

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

  Fiona Apple

  Ideas, Differences, Idlers

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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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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• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  Katy Butler

  Want, Wanting To Die, Dies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

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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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• 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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• 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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• I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Transition, Clear

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, White, Noise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Government, Beverages, Drink

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• Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fun, Fighting

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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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• Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

  Moondog

  Men, Opposites, Once Upon A Time

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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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• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  E. J. Gold

  School, Responsibility, Choices

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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 real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

  Richard Hamming

  Real, Men, Competition

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• You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Eye, Fate, Past

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• I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .

  Dean Israelite

  Real, Believe, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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