Best machines & century Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?”

Needs Firsts Doe Century Personality Machines Twenties Layers Tolerate Bullshit Mechanic

Book:The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

Source: The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

“Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.”

Men Trying Century Bird Machines Method Finals Tricks Flight Broke

Book:Who Goes There?: And Other Stories

Source: Who Goes There?: And Other Stories

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”

“The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined.”

“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.”

“There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills Real Half Century Car Ought Machines Racing Olympics Hood Slick Dodge Nascar Half A Century Auto Racing Neanderthals Wwf Chevrolet

Author:Brock Yates

“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.”

“Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.”

Care Energy Numbers Century Late Machines These Days Buying Pet Devices Instruction Efficient Feeding Twentieth Century

Author:Ellen Goodman

“The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.”

Simple Modern Century Design Building Pure Office Machines Tall Engines Motor Office Buildings

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.”

Ends Half Generations Century Internet Machines Newspapers Flying Dozen Free Speech 20th Century Telephones Carriages Railway Flying Machines

Author:Max Nordau

“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”

Firsts Persons Self Challenges Growing Up Growing Century Planets Machines Twenties Definitions Acquire Organisms Transcendent

Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.”

Thinking Wonderful Crazy Century Machines Cameras Photograph

Author:Peter Beard

“Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.”

Bigs Century Machines Awe 20th Century Cathedrals Awe Inspiring

Author:Daniel Kleppner

“I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.”

Children Century Machines Phones 21st Century Phone Calls Texting Answering Machines

Author:Brendan Dooling

“Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a quality of life where our needs would be taken care of so we could all basically be artists together in the evening, after we had fished, hunted, raised cattle - or whatever it was Marx imagined for us.”

People Needs Giving Looks Dream Would Be Care Together Artist Quality Taken Century Machines Raised Evening Quality Of Life Cattle Utopian Hunted

Author:Astra Taylor

“It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.”

Thinking World Looks Would Be Today Past Political Fun Imagine Century Couple Machines Scientist Philosopher Be Good World Today Time Machine Hobbes Good Fun Great Philosophers Malthus

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.”

Men Wells Century Machines Farms 20th Century

Author:Peter Buffett

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

Thinking Believe Ends Use Able Speak I Believe Opinion Century Machines Educated Artificial Intelligence Artificial Expecting Altered

Author:Alan Turing

“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”

Century Late Machines Our Time Organisms Twentieth Century Hybrid Chimera Cyborg

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.”

“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.”

Reality Past Spirit Technology Century Machines Invention Eras Construction Users Replaced Maintenance Transcendental Spiritualism

Book:Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné

Source: Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné

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