Best machines & process Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.”

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Author:Bill Mollison

“I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition.”

People Giving Ideas Moments Use Process Interesting Information Like You Musician Machines Intelligent Intuition Sail Organisms Precise Intuitive Sailboat

Author:Pantha du Prince

“People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.”

People Way Needs Feels Process Decision Levels Decided Machines One Way Decision Making Parliament Need A Change

Author:William Hague

“Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.”

“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.”

Ifs Way Doe Whole Process Attention Break Machines Paid Dialogue Pay Attention Ran Engaged Our Thoughts Breaking Down Thought Process

Author:David Bohm

“You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.”

Littles Matter Action School Choices Process Responsibility Machines Active Accepted Free Will Trapped Taking Responsibility Spit Matured Responsibility For Your Life

Author:E. J. Gold

“Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.”

“The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.”

Government Political Process Sound Party Machines Increase Average Pushing Federal Government Political Parties Opposing Impunity Probing

Author:Ed Crane

“We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.”

Needs Country Process Powerful Company Huge Machines Election Our Country Reform Voting Stolen Election Process

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.”

People Stills Bigs Process Involved Cost Machines

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.”

Thinking Knows Wells Said Ideas Stories Process Chance Machines Radical Back Again Contingency Well Oiled Machines

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.”

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Author:Murray Bookchin

“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.”

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Author:Hermann Hesse

“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.”

Purpose Process Wealth Normal Europe Machines Killing Productive Regimes Colossal Short Lived

Author:James Buchan

“I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Sometimes Government Process Machines Locals Labour Target Bullied Local Government

Author:David Cameron

“Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.”

People Ifs Knows Want Looks Ends Process Records Like You Machines Who You Are Labels Contracts Committees Spit Record Labels

Author:Gary Allan

“The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.”

Source: The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.”

Should Science Process Principles Intellectual Discovery Machines Accounts Following Intellect Astronomy Exploration Astrology Regularity Kepler

Author:Marvin Minsky

“We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.”

Life Self Reason Science Purpose Process Objects Built Machines Live Life Copies Sole Dna Sustaining Propagation

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.”

Mind Body Science Causes Process Existence Movement Machines Ghost Dogma Mind And Body

Book:The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind

“The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.”

Science Process Understanding Pure Machines Accounts Aim Medicine Fruit Shy Harvest Pragmatic Applied Science

Author:Lincoln Barnett

“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.”

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.”

Needs May Made Real Certain Process Ability Danger Becoming Machines Tables Instruction Mathematician Puzzles Computing

Book:A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers

Source: A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers

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