Machines Quotes

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

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

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

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.