Machines Quotes - Page 17

• Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Fuel, Spirit

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

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• What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Shoes, Flats

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• 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 Physics, Results, Enormous

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human.

  Puff Daddy

  Sleep, People, Looks

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• I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

  Aaron Tippin

  Steel, Freak, Bigs

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• For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with.

  Tim Cahill

  Football, Team, Heart

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• Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Matter, Consciousness

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.94, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Paul Davies (2006). “God and the New Physics”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, Mean, Space

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• The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

  Man Ray

  Men, Use, Fellow Man

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• Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Giving, Community

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• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Games, Benefits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Engineering, Skills, People

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• Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

  Emmylou Harris

  Normal, Cycles, Washing

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• The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.

  James Lileks

  Lying, Copying, Earth

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• Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Stones, Exam, Sharon

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?

  Karl Pilkington

  Believe, Space, Littles

  Podcast (Series 1, Episode 1),

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• Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

  Eddie Vedder

  Perfection, Sound, Today

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• I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

  Rod Serling

  Used, Type, Secretary

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Media, Voice

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

  Richard Dawson

  Play, Cogs, Needs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

  Bryan Ferry

  Home, Piano, Used

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

  Roger Glover

  Pops, Ifs

  Source: thequietus.com

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