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“There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.”

Humans Differences Responsibility Machines Autonomy Abdication

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.”

People Thinking Men Water Differences Blood Machines Mills

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.”

Looks Differences Feet Mom Mass Machines Hockey Turkeys Hockey Mom

Author:Keith Olbermann

“The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...”

Needs Hands Purpose Differences Greater Effects Machines Intelligent Presses Accomplish Instance Engines Beam Workmen Greater Power

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.”

May Hours Differences Watches Minutes Judgment Ordinary Machines Clock Sufficient Seconds Smallest

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“The method of differences is, in fact, a method of additions; and as it includes within its means a larger number of results attainable by addition simply, than any other mathematical principle, it was very appropriately selected as the basis on which to construct an Adding Machine, so as to give to the powers of such a machine the widest possible range.”

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Author:Ada Lovelace

“One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.”

Want Kind Ideas Play Body Differences Interesting Issues Hero Machines Bigger Various Dare Heavy Be Kind Heroic Now And Then Just Being Body Image Good And Bad Barrels Dieting Abdomen

Author:Ben Affleck

“I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.”

Knows Way Ideas Bigs Differences Concepts Machines Wheels Idlers

Author:Fiona Apple

“Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.”

Country Today Fighting Fun Easy Differences Machines Defeat Our Country Making A Difference Easy To Get You Can Make A Difference

Author:Rand Paul

“The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.”

Term Differences Limits Capable Tools Machines Explanation Distinction Precise

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)”

People Humans Has Beens Differences Space Cities Rights Violence Air Car Machines Murder South Fingers Human Rights Lifts Poison Territory Knives Pale Bullets Automobile Banned

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.”

Might Differences Computer Pages Machines Code Biology Genes Engineering Journal Jargon Molecular Biology

Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.”

People Believe Looks Moving Leadership Differences Company Industry Tools Machines Don't Believe Ems Location Coal

Author:Ken Hendricks