Machines Quotes - Page 39

• There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.

  George W. Melville

  War, Successful, Flying

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• I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Flying, Feelings, Use

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• I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

  Octave Chanute

  Believe, Flight, Predictions

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• The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.

  Octave Chanute

  Sports, Special, May

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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 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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• Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance

  Werner J. A. Dahm

  Today, Tasks, Needs

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• Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

  Peter H. Reynolds

  Serendipity, Three, Pieces

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• Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder and randomness. Except in the case of viruses. They can turn off and go dead. Then, if they come in contact with a living system, they switch on and multiply. (194)

  Richard Preston

  Fall, Cells, Viruses

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• Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

  Robert Benchley

  Book, Said, Time Machine

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• Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

  Guy Davenport

  Cybernetics, Language, Feedback

  Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher

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• No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.

  Leo Fender

  Wind, Wells, Persons

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• Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.

  Jim Hightower

  Father, People, Unmasking

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• The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

  Max Weber

  Doe, Compare, Organisation

  Max Weber, Sam Whimster (2004). “The Essential Weber: A Reader”, p.247, Psychology Press

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• A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Father, Lying, Believe

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• China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

  Charles Bass

  Tools, Computer, China

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• The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

  Leos Carax

  Real, Fate, Together

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• Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on. He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished.

  Marguerite Henry

  Horse, Men, Years

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• Remember, machines don't forgive.

  Joel Salatin

  Forgiving, Remember

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• Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

  Jacque Fresco

  Soldier, Killing, Turns

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• In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Moving, Government

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• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• In the short-run, the market is a voting
  machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only
  money, not intelligence or emotional stability - but in the long-
  run, the market is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Emotional, Long

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• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Boys, Night

  Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.

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• Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

  Charlie Munger

  Turtles, World, Earth

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