Machines Quotes - Page 2

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

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.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.