Quotes by Machines The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. Barry Eisler machinescitiespeople Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience. Ben Rattray machinescharitygiving Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better. Benoit Mandelbrot helpfulmachineslittles I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us. Bernard Beckett machinesbrainideas The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it. Bernard Beckett machinesmindideas Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. Bertrand Russell machinesimportanttwo With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Bertrand Russell agriculturemachineslong The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. Bertrand Russell machinesmindway Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. Bertrand Russell instinctmachinesway Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. Bertrand Russell machinesrespectpeople Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. Bertrand Russell machinespowerbeautiful When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. Beth Ditto machinesmomhouse A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. Betsey Johnson machinesgoing-awayuse College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. Bill Gaede cookiesmachinescollege The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper. Bill Gates machinesfasterneeds Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off. Bill Gates machinesdoejobs Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. Bill Gates machinesguytaken A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. Bill Gates microsoftmachineswould-be We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly. Bill Gates plugsmachinesmoving Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man. Bill Gates machinesrunningmen«1234567891011»
