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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
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Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
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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.
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The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
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The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
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The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines can swim.
The threats to computing science (1984) -
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis -
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
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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.
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We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
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What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
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