Machines Quotes

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

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

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.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.