“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.” KnowsGivingFeelsMindEarthSpiritualJoyHealingDestinySunPathTroubleMagicWindMachinesInfiniteShiningBlowSensesEndlessFlightFancySpokesEcstasyMetalsFadesBreezeSpinningMy FutureCyclingSun ShinesPedalsRotation Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“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
“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
“Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.” MagicMachinesCreedsCompetenceGearsMesh Author:George H. W. Bush
“There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.” ThinkingRealBodyMagicMachinesWeightYour BodyBikeWorkoutTreadmillsStationaryMilkshakes Author:Richard Simmons
“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.” ThinkingMeanCoursesMagicCallingOffersIllusionTasksMachinesIntelligentSoftwareMediocritySeducing Author:Larry Constantine
“I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.” WayFeelsPersonsStillsLosesGoneGreaterMagicMachinesMissionsApplesFeel BetterLinkedAurasMystiqueSad Things Author:Alex Gibney
“Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.” IfsKindHas BeensMadeWantedGirlHurtMagicPaperBirdMachinesHungryBlankLoving YouKind Of GirlBlank Paper Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.” BelieveHas BeensArtHardHandsArtistReligionCreativeMagicMachinesExpensesScience And ReligionTrue ReligionCreative ArtHard To BelieveCreative Artists Book:1949-1959 Source: 1949-1959