446 Quotes About Machines

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.