Machines Quotes - Page 39

• We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Dream, Money

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Freedom, Responsibility

  "For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 21, 2008.

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• It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Men, Slave

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• We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Way, Feds

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

  Bill Nighy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rain

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• As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be connected to God individually so that you all are connected among yourselves. I have been saying this again and again and again because at the Sahasrara you are being blessed with this collective spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.

  Simon Newcomb

  Distance, Future, Airplane

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• [The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof.

  Rudolph Schoenheimer

  Hard Work, Science, Two

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• 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.

  Steve Ballmer

  Stupid, Iphone, Phones

  "FLASHBACK: Steve Ballmer's First Take On The iPhone, January 2007" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. Junuary 30, 2010.

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• None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Progress, Use

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• [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Men, Fascination

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• What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

  John Brunner

  Names, Humanity, Humans

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.545, Macmillan

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• Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

  Octave Chanute

  Distance, Airplane, Successful

  Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”

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• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Future, Science, Ideas

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• The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

  James Prescott Joule

  Hard Work, Science, Animal

  James Prescott Joule (2011). “The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Success, Hard Work, Science

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• Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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• May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

  Winston Churchill

  Block, War, Cities

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Government, Liberty, Property

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

  Larry Page

  Technology, People, Important

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

  Scott McNealy

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

  Edith Hamilton

  Children, School, Air

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge University in England; exactly how many sodas are available in certain vending machines at certain major universities; and much, much more.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Cambridge University, Use

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