446 Quotes About Machines

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

The machines got us into this problem. They are going to have to get us out of it.

For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go"...

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.