Machines Quotes

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

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.

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.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.