Machines Quotes

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.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

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.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

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

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

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

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

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

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

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

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.