Quotes by Machines 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 charity research There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. Elizabeth Arden machines three names We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine. Elizabeth Chandler machines silence stars If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil. Elizabeth Smart machines oil roots Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. Ellen Goodman machines once-upon-a-time people The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. Ellen Ullman machines yellow needs I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. Elton John machines drug facts I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. Emile Hirsch machines balls want What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine! Emma Goldman machines development thinking Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing. Emmanuelle Beart sweaters machines done Normal is a cycle on a washing machine. Emmylou Harris cycles machines normal The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. Enrico Fermi machines ties numbers I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. Eric Bana machines weight use 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. Eric S. Raymond machines technology different Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world. Eric Trump machines political world I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. Eric Temple Bell machines understanding math The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. Eric S. Raymond machines class world Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time Eric S. Raymond preference programmers machines Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. Eric Schmidt protection machines technology If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. Eric S. Raymond machines different faces «1011121314151617181920»
