Quotes by Machines Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images. Seymour Papert machinessoundpeople Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine. Seymour Papert computer-literacymachinespeople In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God. Seyyed Hossein Nasr machinesspiritualteacher Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. Seth Klarman excessmachinespeople Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time. Sharlto Copley machinespowerfulpeople Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile. Sharyn McCrumb hostilemachinesseems The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well! Shawn Johnson wellsmachinesbody I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine Shaquille O'Neal fax-machinesfaxmachines I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds! Shemar Moore chinesemachinesfall The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. Sherwood Anderson machinessweetmen I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine. Sidney Hillman machinesrunningbelieve Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine. Sigfried Giedion hogsubmitmachines This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will. Simon Blackburn machinessoulmind Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. Simon Newcomb machinesairplanespace The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.' Simon Sinek fishymetricsmachines Nothing is less instructive than a machine. Simone Weil machines The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Sol LeWitt machinesideasart I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna. Spike Lee publicitymachinesnumbers A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Stanislaw Lem machinessmarttasks I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders. Stanley Bing machinesfriendlyjobs«4142434445464748495051»
