446 Quotes About Machines

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.

In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.

Any new machines that are on the market that run Windows are great.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.