“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.” ArtistFiguresMachinesHarderMaking MoneyMassive Author:Ken Baumann
“I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while.” WayTryingLittlesMightEnjoyUnderstandingDealsDogFiguresMachinesBuddyUnderstanding You Author:Panda Bear
“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” IfsKindHas BeensTwoIdeasAbleAnswersFiguresPrayingComputerProgramMachinesIntelligenceConfusionOccasionsMathematicalProgrammingProvokingAccuracyComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesComputingRight AnswersComputer Systems Author:Charles Babbage
“A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.” WayFirstsGivenFiguresSmartTasksMachinesWorth It Book:The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy Source: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
“The key question facing those of us working in the media (old and new) is whether we embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected. There is no question that, as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be - and needs to be - a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.” WayNeedsPastMovingDealsMediaFiguresKeysIndustryReturnInternetModelsMachinesEmbraceMoving ForwardRadicalHopsRevenueExperimentationJournalisticRadical ChangeOld And New Author:Arianna Huffington
“The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.” FeelsShouldTryingMindFirstsPastStuffMemoriesFocusOne ThingFiguresJudgmentCriticismMachinesBusyStoresImpressionTensionHolding OnStressedGrudgeIntricateOne Thing At A Time Author:MC Yogi
“Russia is a very reliable and big market. I don't remember the figure but, for example, the German machine-building industry has been increasing its supplies to Russia every year. These supplies are huge. Does someone want to discontinue these supplies? We'll buy from somebody else.” WantYearsDoeHas BeensBigsRememberFiguresExampleBuildingHugeIndustryMachinesRussiaSupplies Author:Vladimir Putin
“I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.” WayTwoDifferentAbleUsedMy OwnFiguresMachinesTrackStudiosDifferent WaysTapeCentreDelayComing BackSan FranciscoPatchesTubesElectronic MusicRecordersSynthesizers Author:Pauline Oliveros
“Donald Trump entered show business in his early 50s and becomes a celebrity for 15 years. He decides he wants to officially run for president and doesn't really know the inside politics business, and masters it, beats 15 opponents. Then he wins and defeats the Clinton machine... He's a very fast learner. He will figure out the presidency and governing very quickly.” KnowsWantYearsShowsRunningWinningPresidentFiguresMastersTrumpBeatsMachinesClintonDefeatOpponentsPresidencyShow BusinessGoverningLearners Author:Christopher Ruddy
“With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.” SeemsBehindsFiguresInvolvedMachinesPublic Figures Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.” BrainFiguresSpeechMachinesPerformancesAlteredRoguesArtifacts Author:Tom Wolfe
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsMeanReasonBigsNumbersImagineFiguresTypeMachinesExtrasImagine That Book:The Invention of Hugo Cabret Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.” PersonsReasonSeemsHateUniverseCoursesNextPoorWonderFiguresLike YouCreaturesMachinesBraveDearCreatorExperimentsReasonableFree WillMeant To BeHate YouRobotsExhaustingDemoralized Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.” IfsKnowsWorldWayLittlesMadeReasonHappensStuffBreakPiecesFateFiguresMachinesThings HappenMade ItHappens For A ReasonLeo ValdezHouse Of HadesBreak Off Author:Rick Riordan
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.” FactsSchoolPoliticalSongLanguageSportsFiguresMajorsNewsMachinesInstitutionsStructureAdvertisingIdeologyOfficialsRepeatsStereotypePopular Song Author:Roland Barthes