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“Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.”

“If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.”

Ifs Feels Different Feelings Past Universe Possibility Computer Creating Built Program Machines Function Users Pseudo Time Machine Spatial Different Feelings

Author:Kedar Joshi

“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”

Ifs Machines Intelligent Expected Infallible

Book:The Essential Turing

Source: The Essential Turing

“President Bush said he didn't want to renew the Assault Weapons Ban because it might 'infringe on hunters' rights'. Who needs an AK-47 machine gun to go hunting? Let me tell you guys something... If it takes you 500 rounds to bring down a deer, I don't want you going to the bathroom in MY house!”

“Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from that and tell longer stories that are quite personal, and balance that out with features, then that would be the ultimate dream.”

Ifs I Can Stories Dream Would Be Balance Machines Ultimate Features Exposed Extensions Murphy

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.”

Ifs Real Song House Messages Machines Washing Ipads Postmodern Washing Machines

Author:Abel Ferrara

“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.”

“If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.”

People Ifs Machines Raises Expensive Minimum Minimum Wage

Author:Marco Rubio

“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Together Courses Community Technology Creative Dog Design Building Like You Internet Machines Bases Deeper Driven Code Freak Capitalist Thrust

Author:Terence McKenna

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Reality Joy Wonder Steps Path Flower Walking Mindfulness Machines Opposites Infinite Engaged Village Enabling

Author:Nhat Hanh

“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.”

“Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.”

Ifs Should States Whole Winning Lost Paper Machines Cancer Cards Therapy Gambling Hospitals Bathroom Toilets Tobacco Gamble Gum Chewing Hog Toilet Paper Lost You Nevada Chewing Tobacco

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.”

Ifs Trying Machines Soda

Author:Max Lucado

“We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.”

Ifs Feels Ends Hands Light Machines Train Tunnels Slipping Steering Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Robert Lowell

“...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.”

Ifs World Looks Art Made Ideas Painting Art Is Machines Traditional Painter Useless Instant Capture Gestures Execution Skillful Subversion Redefining

Author:David Byrne

“The internet's a creepy thing, especially if you have kids. It says something very creepy about the fact that I use the same machine to masturbate with as I use to teach my kid the alphabet.”

Ifs Facts Use Kids Teach Internet Machines Creepy Alphabet

Author:Greg Giraldo

“If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.”

People Ifs Looks Has Beens Hard Levels Views Television Equal Machines Income Consumption Fractions Sewing Dishwashers

Author:Milton Friedman

“I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.”

Ifs Made Stills Perfect Machines My Time Back In Time Aces Time Machine Go Back In Time

Author:Andy Kindler

“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.”

Ifs Writing Light Poetry Next Stuff Talking Poet Sitting Shadow Machines Albums Dry Songwriters Cleaners Soda Slot Machines Lyricists Des Moines Dry Cleaners

Author:Don Alias

“All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines.”

Ifs Persons Form Law Results Machines Determine Corporate Corporations Behave Employee Concerts Throwing Obliged Revolt

Author:Jerry Mander

“If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.”

Ifs Men Firsts Humans Care America Dies Heaven Voice Hell Modern Security Comfort Benefits Machines Bones Protection Flesh I Care Coal Grind Heaven Or Hell Modern America

Author:John Lewis

“The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.”

Ifs Problem Tests Machines Ultimate Serenity Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Personal Problems

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Mind Art Used Artist Next Voice Levels Creativity Technology Too Much Danger Right Now Reflection Art Is Machines Hip Hop Hips Hops Efficient Next Level

Author:Del tha Funkee Homosapien

“I turn on the machines and start to think about ideas and take it from there, it usually begins if it's a beat, a track creating a beat/beats and then the bass-line/lines, then comes the sounds--drones, atmospherics etc, then the edits of various sounds I created and keep going till I feel I have enough sounds ideas to start working and building a track. I have many banks of sounds that we hear that can be manipulated in the machines.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ideas Enough Turns Sound Lines Building Creating Beats Machines Track Various Etc Keep Going Bass Turn-on Edits Drones

Author:Mick Harris

“Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.”

People Ifs Sound Computer Letters Machines Blind Very Good Access Inaccessible Gaining Knowledge

Author:Seymour Papert

“If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.”

Ifs Knows Sound Jokes Machines Exciting

Author:Jeff Beck

“The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.”

Ifs Men Want Use Used Demand Machines Increase Fellows Calm Complicated Engines Replaced Catastrophe Our Love Fellow Man

Author:Man Ray

“If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.”

Ifs I Can Running Games Rooms Benefits Window Machines Consumers Living Room Steam Developers

Author:Gabe Newell

“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Waiting Worry Fire Doors Streets Tvs Machines Army Scared London Breathing

Author:Charlie Brooker

“If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.”

Ifs Machines Pops

Author:Roger Glover

“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 used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.”

Ifs Giving Used Conscious Machines Dollars Honestly

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.”

Ifs Humans Stills Matter Lost Human Beings Decision Consciousness Quality Losing Conscious Machines Decision Making Singularity

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.”

People Ifs Writing Certain Causes Simple Powerful Pieces Products Type Machines Sells Assuming Copies Software Hardware

Author:Bill Gates

“It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.”

Ifs Years Mind Made Lasts Moving Lines Interesting Wonder Changed Machines Stuck Verses Deliberate Typewriters

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.”

Ifs Way Feels Moments Character Stories Desire Reader Machines Saving Strings Pulling Puppets Resisting Epiphany

Author:Molly Antopol

“I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Can Do Successful Depends Machines Tendencies Making Money Investors Adviser Superhuman Workaholic

Author:Sia Furler

“I think you have to find how the machine can work for you. That's what I mean by "attaching yourself to the machine," 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mean Enough Causes Benefits Smart Machines Rage Savvy Rage Against The Machine

Author:Ice Cube

“The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!”

Ifs Wells Body Machines Your Body Right Thing

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I know this is going to sound crazy, but I really love working out. I know that sounds sick to some people, but I didn't love it at first. It's become a healthy addiction for me. And like, now, if I'm watching TV on the couch I'm like, "Ugh, I could be on a cardio machine watching the same thing." That's just now how my mind thinks.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Firsts Sound Crazy Tvs Healthy Machines Sick Addiction Work Out Couches Watching Tv Cardio Ugh

Author:Khloe Kardashian

“There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.”

Ifs Thinking Can Do Style Machines Exciting

Author:Matt Tong

“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.”

People Ifs World Want Writing Littles Hard Song My Own Records Week Feet Huge Involved Machines March Take Time Festivals June April July Circuits

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."”

“If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.”

Ifs Wells Would Be America Energy Term Animal Products Source Machines Function Indian What If Milk Cows Inferiors Jersey Cattle Dairy Swiss Manure Alps Dairy Cows

Author:Vandana Shiva

“As Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, said: "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." You need the truth, and you also need a demand, and you need to bring that demand into the realm of electoral politics. If you don't do that, it's very hard to get such an entrenched machine to move.”

Ifs Needs Said Hard Moving Demand Machines Realms Abolitionist Frederick Douglas

Author:Jill Stein

“If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.”

Ifs Giving Persons Order Individual Forever Duty Machines Performances Down And Efficiency Slow Down

Author:William S. Burroughs

“The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.”

Ifs Knows Way Ends Form Purpose Community Results Views Common Progress Communication Activity Machines Maximum Cognizant

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.”

Ifs Trying Machines Typewriters

Author:Chinua Achebe

“How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?”

Ifs Earth Mother Suffering Powerful Cities Machines Misery Environmental Stewardship Environmental Stewardship Good Earth

Author:Paul Sears

“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.”

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