Machines Quotes - Page 24

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.

Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!

Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

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.

You can't mine coal without machine guns.

The economy is like a machine.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.