Machines Quotes - Page 27

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly.

How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.