Machines Quotes

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

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.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.