Quotes by Machines I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing. Aaron Tippin freak machines steel With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. Adam Osborne hardware machines software 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. Adam Smith machines principles artist To fight, we must have oil for our machine. Adolf Hitler machines oil fighting Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. Adrian Tchaikovsky progress machines people You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding. Akio Morita machines understanding people The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. Alan Kay machines technology language A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine. Alan Kay machines computer coffee We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless. Alan Lightman hours machines conscious Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing. Alan Moore machines dancing forever To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis program machines learning In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. Alan Perlis symbiosis machines men Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. Alan Perlis machines fit mean If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. Alan Turing machines expected intelligent A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. Alan Turing machines discipline men We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. Alan Turing machines intellectual men The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Alan Turing machines believe thinking The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. Alan Turing machines done ideas Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Alan Turing programming machines surprise 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. Alan Turing machines believe thinking 1234567891011»
