Machines Quotes
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No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.
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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.'
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These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it
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In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
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The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.
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The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.
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It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.
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Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
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My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
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Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.
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A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.
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I am not bald - my head is just a solar panel for a sex machine.
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Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.
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I’ve got the machines. I’ve got the people. I’ve got all the materials I need. I know there’s a market out there, because the competitors’ stuff is selling. So what the hell is it?
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
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The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
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I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.
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The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.
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People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.
