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 freakmachinessteel With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. Adam Osborne hardwaremachinessoftware 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 machinesprinciplesartist To fight, we must have oil for our machine. Adolf Hitler machinesoilfighting Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. Adrian Tchaikovsky progressmachinespeople 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 machinesunderstandingpeople 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 machinestechnologylanguage A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine. Alan Kay machinescomputercoffee 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 hoursmachinesconscious 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 machinesdancingforever To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis programmachineslearning In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. Alan Perlis symbiosismachinesmen Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. Alan Perlis machinesfitmean If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. Alan Turing machinesexpectedintelligent A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. Alan Turing machinesdisciplinemen We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. Alan Turing machinesintellectualmen The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Alan Turing machinesbelievethinking 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 machinesdoneideas Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Alan Turing programmingmachinessurprise 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 machinesbelievethinking1234567891011»
