Machines Quotes - Page 33

• [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Men, Fascination

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• What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

  John Brunner

  Names, Humanity, Humans

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.545, Macmillan

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• Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

  Octave Chanute

  Distance, Airplane, Successful

  Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”

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• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Future, Science, Ideas

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• The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat.

  Oliver Stewart

  Real, Moving, Air

  Oliver Stewart (1928). “Aeolus: Or, The Future of the Flying Machine”

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• The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

  James Prescott Joule

  Hard Work, Science, Animal

  James Prescott Joule (2011). “The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Success, Hard Work, Science

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• Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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• May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

  Winston Churchill

  Block, War, Cities

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Government, Liberty, Property

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Technology, Land, Doors

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• As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

  Larry Page

  Technology, People, Important

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

  Scott McNealy

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

  Edith Hamilton

  Children, School, Air

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England; exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities; and much, much more.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Cambridge University, Use

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• It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Children, Pain, Coffee

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• How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.

  Hal Varian

  Jobs, Hands, Years

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• In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men

  Jim Garrison

  Men, Gun, Numbers

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• There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Struggle, Earth, Common

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.280, SUNY Press

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• We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

  Antonio Damasio

  Thinking, Feelings, Human Nature

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• Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sexy, Stars, Interesting

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

  Alan Turing

  Thinking, Should Have, Long

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• The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

  Alan Turing

  Believe, Thinking, Discussion

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• Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

  Alan Turing

  Real, Needs, May

  B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press

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