S. S. Wilson quotes

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.”
-- S. S. Wilson

#Machines Quotes #Demand Quotes #Littles Quotes

“With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.”

“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.”

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

Source : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 442, 1950.

“Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.”

Source : Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket

“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”

“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.”

“When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.”

“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”

“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”