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“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”

Men Mean Able Universe Goal Justice Decision Business Compassion Doubt Enlightenment Machines Determine Spread Consideration Avenues

Author:Lewis Strauss

“For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is a way of thanking the tool for what it provides in life. It helps put bread on the table and a roof overhead. It gives us work and pleasure, exercises our minds, brings us information, connects us with other people. It is a partner helping us achieve our goals. Nodding also thanks the unseen hands and minds who helped create our machine.”

People Way Giving Mind Mean Helping Hands Goal Pleasure Achieve Information Exercise Gratitude Computer Tools Machines Tables Partners Bread Thanks Roof Unseen Overhead Nodding

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.”

Mean Ends Turns Goal Wealth Economy Fashion Industry Built Machines Productions Scales Goods Leisure Devoted Consumption Replaced Expansion Output Obsolescence

Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY

Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”

Giving May Hate Fighting Universe Understanding Goal Modern Birth Machines Intelligent Strive Height Climbing Aspire Modern Life Intelligent Machines

Book:Past, Present, and Future

Source: Past, Present, and Future

“It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.”

People Humans Goal Human Beings Machines Opposition Unlikely

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.”

Ifs Want Real Problem Turns Goal Achieve Behavior Machines What You Want Defined Capability Robots Real Problems Superhuman Achieving Goals

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political machines in a lot of large cities, and everywhere the goals of society get lost.”

Thinking Heart Book Problem Political Lost Goal Cities Machines Urban Large Cities

Author:Angela Alioto

“There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.”

People Ifs World Should Believe Opportunity Individual I Believe Goal Lines Levels Emotional Equal Achievement Machines Errors Engineers Aspire Equal Opportunity

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“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.”

“Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.”

Believe Science Belief Goal Technology Achieve Particular Essentials Machines Ultimate Defined Programming Logical Gates Sequence

Author:Stewart Alsop II

“A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.”