Lifebond Machines Quotes

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. ~ Pete Townshend

As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines, but rather feeling machines that think. ~ Brene Brown

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ... ? Then you serve machines. ~ John Brunner

Indeed, everything was a shock at the beginning. The wash machines, dryers, dishwashers, garbage disposal machines, juicers, toasters, and yes, the ATM machines. Watching money spilled out of a wall was simply amazing! ~ Li Cunxin

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. ~ Erich Fromm

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities. ~ David Hanson

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability. ~ Jim Allchin

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. ~ Antonio Damasio

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines. ~ Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. ~ Peter Watts

Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space ships or satellites may encounter other interplanetary machines, manned or otherwise. Our space devices may even be closely approached by such alien machines ... ~ Donald Keyhoe

When machines break down, it's people who suffer. ~ Marty Rubin

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. ~ Henri Poincare

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability. ~ David Ricardo

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? ~ George Carlin

I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate.
Grandma Mazur ~ Janet Evanovich

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. ~ Reggie Watts

To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution. ~ Max More

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. ~ Alan Perlis

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America. ~ David Sedaris

The voice that navigated was definitely that of a machine, and yet you could tell that the machine was a woman, which hurt my mind a little. How can machines have genders? The machine also had an American accent. How can machines have nationalities? This can't be a good idea, making machines talk like real people, can it? Giving machines humanoid identities? ~ Matthew Quick

Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machines are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. (letter 96) ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you. ~ Winston Churchill

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ~ Douglas Coupland

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole. ~ Sting

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. ~ Stanley Kubrick

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people. ~ Stephen Hawking

In my opinion, Pullover machines are among the most valuable exercise machines you will find in a gym. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

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. ~ Ray Bradbury

Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines. ~ Dan Simmons

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased, ~ James Baker

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects. ~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Even in the latter case nature exhibits a kind of intelligence, and there is no reason to rule out the possibility that machines will do so too. If nature in the form of the human species could bring forth intelligent machines, the process of evolution would continue among the machines. ~ John N. Gray

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. ~ Rick Riordan

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude. ~ Robert Hughes

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines. ~ Patricia Churchland

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. ~ Ray Kurzweil

The magic went away. Maerlyn retired to his cave in one world, the sword of Eld gave way to the pistols of the gunslingers in another, and the magic went away. And across the arc of years, great alchemists, great scientists, and great - what? - technicians, I think? Great men of thought, anyway, that's what I mean, great men of deduction - these came together and created the machines which ran the Beams. They were great machines but they were mortal machines. They replaced the magic with machines, do ya kennit, and now the machines are failing. In ~ Stephen King

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Slot machines are like crack for old people. ~ Keenen Ivory Wayans

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence. ~ Alva Noe

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books ~ Robert Benchley

When you look at the stars..
your eyes are time machines ~ Waqas Rabbani

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. ~ Alan Perlis

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile. ~ Sharyn McCrumb

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do. ~ Herbert Simon

Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore. ~ Chad Hurley

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting. ~ Igor Levit

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. ~ Malcolm Potts

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines. ~ Thomas Bangalter

His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world. ~ Andrew Hodges

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. ~ Tim Berners-Lee

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies. ~ Jake Barton

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. ~ Michael Behe

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile ~ Isaac Asimov

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription. ~ Malcolm Potts

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes. ~ Rod McKuen

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines. ~ Bre Pettis

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. ~ Daniel Kleppner

[ ... ] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"
He shook his head, obviously at a loss. "I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts. ~ Mercedes Lackey

We're damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet. ~ Evanna Lynch

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively. ~ Douglas Rushkoff

It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine. ~ Darryl Pinckney

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. ~ Mason Cooley

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great. ~ Matt Groening

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

Remember, machines don't forgive. ~ Joel Salatin

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom. ~ David Hanson

When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. ~ Scott McNealy

Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to. ~ Isaac Asimov

These guys get mean waiting on furloughs, beat the machines up good, insurance replaces three batches a month, but destroying machines aint booze and pussy if you know what I mean. ~ Philip Schultz

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. ~ Luc Ferrari

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

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. ~ Paul Gauguin

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men. ~ Marvin Minsky

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up. ~ Joey Dunlop

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds? ~ Frank Stronach

The machines are too dull when we
are lion-poems that move & breathe. ~ Michael McClure

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands. ~ Jack Johnson

I believe all God's creatures have a soul ... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines! ~ Stephen Colbert

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines? ~ Gary Marcus

We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient, ~ Hugh Herr

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. ~ Hal Abelson

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call. ~ Bob Hicok

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. ~ Christo

The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras. ~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines. ~ Michael Bloomberg

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. ~ Alan Turing

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens. ~ David McCord

Only a well-oiled machine runs smoothly. ~ Ron Kaufman

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment. ~ Albert Einstein

America was a land of machines, and it was through machines, the miraculous handmaidens of mob culture, that the muses of illiteracy brought America her voice and vision during the years of the immigrants' waves. Centuries ago, movable type had given literacy to the common man. Now, through these wondrous newer machines, he would give it back. ~ Nick Tosches

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ~ Karl Marx

Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns ... the writers are back! ~ Jon Stewart

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally. ~ Joe Trippi

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. ~ Kip Thorne

Tsk! As if she can fix the living like she fixes machines. ~ Misba