“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.” ThinkingWayTwoHandsTogetherGenerationsMagicParticularSmartMachinesMethodSomedayArtificial IntelligenceImprovingBeing SmartMaybe Someday Author:Marvin Minsky
“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.” EndsHalfGenerationsCenturyInternetMachinesNewspapersFlyingDozenFree Speech20th CenturyTelephonesCarriagesRailwayFlying Machines Author:Max Nordau
“The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.” StillsGamesCan DoGenerationsAdvantageMachinesPerformancesTemporaryNew GenerationConsole Author:Will Wright
“Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.” ValuesAbilityLevelsTechnologyGenerationsInformationDependsIntellectualTasksMachinesIncreaseManageComplexityContrastInformation Technology Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.” WorldWellsStatesEconomyGenerationsDrugMachinesWeightCriminalsWelfareExpensiveObnoxiousWelfare State Author:Martin Durkin
“The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.” ReasonAmericaGivenNationsGenerationsPolicyBuildingKeysStandardsMachinesDrivenReason WhyMakersFactoriesAncestorConsumingIrresponsiblePolicy Makers Author:Kurt Richebacher
“The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.” GenerationsAuthorityMachinesRageYounger GenerationRage Against The Machine Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
“I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.” SchoolGenerationsTerribleMachinesOld SchoolTextingAnswering MachinesOlder Generation Author:Igor Levit
“We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.” MenPhilosophyInspirationActionChristianSpiritEvilGoalReligiousResultsGenerationsPersonalityDemandDiseaseDirectMachinesMethodDramaticReachingTragicButtonsShallowSymptomsHollowGlamourImpatientReligious PhilosophySalesmanshipGlorificationExternalitiesDynamic Personality Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.” KindSelfDreamRunningPovertyGenerationsSelf EsteemIgnoranceBearsCostLowsMachinesEsteemPerpetualHopelessnessGearsGrindLow Self EsteemIlliteracy Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark