“I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.” BelieveBookPurposeI BelieveTechnologyCommunicationMachinesFascinatingAdmirationSubstitutesImprovingPrintedGadgetsComplementaryPrinted Word Author:Prince Philip
“Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.” ThinkingMindBelieveHumansLongI BelieveImaginationTechnologyDegreesLong TimeMachinesHuman MindPaceInfinityUnlikelyProceedingMatched Book:A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit Source: A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit
“The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenNeedsBelieveHelpingSufferingI BelieveMoralIgnoranceHe ManOfficeToolsMachinesResponsibleMeetingsObligationEthicalJohnsonMaintenanceAdvertisementsTreacherousMoral ObligationMalfeasance Author:Charlie Munger
“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.” ThinkingBelieveEndsUseAbleSpeakI BelieveOpinionCenturyMachinesEducatedArtificial IntelligenceArtificialExpectingAltered Author:Alan Turing
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldBelieveOpportunityIndividualI BelieveGoalLinesLevelsEmotionalEqualAchievementMachinesErrorsEngineersAspireEqual Opportunity Author:R. A. Salvatore
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.” IfsMenBelieveMadeI BelieveForgetPrayingMachinesUnhappyMade ItGreat MenCried Book:The Machine Stops Source: The Machine Stops
“Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.” IfsBelieveChildrenHas BeensI BelieveGriefVisionFireArmsDevilDirectMachinesDiedInstrumentsHorribleAdamSuggestionsCannons Author:Martin Luther
“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.” MenWorldBelieveChildrenDreamRealityEyeYoungValuesGivenI BelieveImaginationTalkingCivilizationMachinesWideTalesDevelopingFairyEnginesFairy TaleTelephonesImaginativeAutomobileSteamEducatorProminentBettermentSteam EnginesEyes Wide Open Author:L. Frank Baum
“The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveDeserveMachinesOriginalsDiscussionMeaningless Author:Alan Turing