People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
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.
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
Our body is a machine for living.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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