Quotes by Machines Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. Stanley Kubrick machineswishwar Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine. Stephanie Strickland machinespoetryliterature I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines! Stephen Colbert machinessoulbelieve Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them. Stephen Fry machinescoffeemoving Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. Stephen Hawking leisuremachinespeople Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears. Stephen King machinesgearsbelieve The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined. Stephen Jay Gould machinesdoubtanimal It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict. Stephen Hawking theoretical-physicsmachinesresults An office is a machine for dying. Steve Aylett machinesofficedying And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth. Steve Case machinesvideogames It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. Steve Guttenberg copyingmachinescomedy The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. Steve Lacy saxophonemachinesinteresting Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine. Steve McQueen pinballtiltmachines We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. Steven Cojocaru hypemachinesimmune One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else. Stephen King machinesworryneeds I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine. Steven Spielberg machinesfavorsisrael They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole. Sting machineswastereality If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all. Stuart J. Russell machinesqualitydecision It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings. Stuart J. Russell machinesgoalpeople I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works. Stuart J. Russell machinesdollarsgiving«4243444546474849505152»
