Quotes about machines
machines lines information
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. Charles Babbage
machines aids arise
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
machines littles chess
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. Bobby Fischer
machines target jewelry
Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines. Bre Pettis
machines language assembly
I started out with machine code and assembly language. Charles Petzold
machines eating programming
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick
machines different unix
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 Dennis Ritchie
machines research charity
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. Eliezer Yudkowsky
machines personal student work
There is always a student supervisor, not a personal trainer, on duty. They know how to work the machines properly.
machines algorithms way
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct. Donald Knuth
machines turns prepared
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.
machines dependent capable
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. Douglas Rushkoff
machines hungry fats
There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry. Anna Friel
machines reason shoulders
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. Ambrose Bierce
machines want
I want to be a machine. Andy Warhol
machines metrics fishy
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.' Simon Sinek
machines language poet
Language is the machine of the poet. Thomas B. Macaulay
machines firsts patient
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine. Viktor E. Frankl
machines earth regulation
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. Vaclav Havel
machines copying comedy
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. Steve Guttenberg
machines way taking-things-for-granted
The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted. Richard McKenna
machines top-gear plant
Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig. Richard Hammond
machines humans human-beings
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? Ray Bradbury
machines internet cellphone
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
machines environment function
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all. Ralph Merkle
machines unattainable human-nature
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether. Michael Shermer
machines something-better humans
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can. Mark Zuckerberg
machines protein structure
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. Michael Behe
machines chess titles
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances. Max Euwe
machines doe compare
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. Max Weber
machines mouths
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? Nikita Khrushchev
machines want adjusting
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
machines may pages
The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Mark Twain