Machines Quotes

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.