Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development. . . might be carried as far as possible.
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre. . . had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.
As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
This machine kills fascists.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.