Machines Quotes - Page 3

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.