Machines Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• 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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• A film is a machine made of images

  Hollis Frampton

  Film, Made

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• I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

  Cory Doctorow

  Math, Doors, Car

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.119, Macmillan

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• If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

  Robin Ince

  Matter, Royal, Lectures

  "O come all ye non-faithful, and rejoice in science" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2009.

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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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• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Oil, Roots, Waste

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

  Tommy Shaw

  Writing, Ideas, Lazy

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• The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

  Kalle Lasn

  Economy, Doomsday, Global Economy

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• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  DeForest Soaries

  People, Voting, Vote

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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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• This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

  Peg Bracken

  Men, Illustration, Looks

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• The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Hands

  Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto (1974). “Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.

  Bryan Fischer

  Military, War, Six

  "Homosexuality, Hitler, and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" by Bryan Fischer, www.renewamerica.com. May 28, 2010.

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• The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

  Martin Puryear

  Hands, People, Together

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• As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.

  Herbert

  Wise, Government, Tunes

  Hoover, Herbert (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929”, p.551, Best Books on

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• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Book, Passion, Past

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• I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

  Jim Allchin

  Healthy, Capability

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• But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Team, Race, People

  Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee (2012). “Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy”, p.59, Brynjolfsson and McAfee

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• We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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