Quotes
Quotes about Machine
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. â¢Jeff Raskin Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. â¢Anonymous The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." â¢Leon Lanthier Computers are useless - they only give you answers. â¢Pablo Picasso "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. â¢J. H. Goldfuss No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. â¢John Ruskin All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. â¢Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. â¢James Magary Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. â¢E W Dijkstra Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. â¢Popular Mechanics, 1949 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. â¢Andy Rooney Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. â¢Edward Shepherd Mead A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. â¢John Gall There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. â¢Bill Gates If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. â¢Bill Gates Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. â¢MG Siriam Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. â¢Tom Fasulo Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. â¢William Gibson URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. â¢Chris Clark My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. â¢Penn Jillett We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. â¢Robert Wilensky It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. â¢Denise Caruso Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! â¢Homer Simpson Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. â¢Scott Adams I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. â¢Isaac Asimov Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. â¢Rich Cook If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. â¢Robert Cringely I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. â¢Steve Jobs The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. â¢Porterfield People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. â¢Anonymous Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. â¢Anonymous But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. â¢Bruce Leverett Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.
Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.
When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.âLord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.âOrville Wright.
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.
The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.
A house is a machine for living in.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.
