Machines Quotes - Page 9

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

This machine kills fascists.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

The PS3 is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine...With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

I ain't getting on no time machine.

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.