Quotes and Sayings About Machines
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
-- Adam Osborne -
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky -
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
-- Akio Morita -
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
-- Alan Kay -
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
-- Alan Perlis -
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
-- Alan Perlis -
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
-- Alan Perlis -
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
-- Alan Turing -
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
-- Alan Turing -
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
-- Alan Turing -
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 -
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
-- Alan Turing -
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.
-- Alan Turing -
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
-- Alex Comfort -
There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
-- Alex James -
I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.
-- Alex Riley -
I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
-- Alex Zanardi -
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 -
I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.
-- Alexander Ovechkin -
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.
-- Amy Poehler -
I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.
-- Andie MacDowell -
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
-- Andre Malraux -
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
-- Andrew Forrest -
The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.
-- Andrew Keen -
Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.
-- Anna D. Shapiro
