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“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.”

Needs Guy Views Machines Point Of View Other Guys

Book:The Light of Other Days

Source: The Light of Other Days

“There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.”

Ifs Life Humans May Long Universe Difficult Views Civilization Concepts Logic Machines Physics Signals Skulls Hardware Organic Life

Author:Martin Rees

“For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.”

“To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.”

People Humans Persons Made Lines Views Identity Machines Intelligent Point Of View Artificial Intelligence Artificial Blur Idiosyncrasies Intelligent Machines

Author:Brian Christian

“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

“While most people are conditioned to see the body as a biological machine, you can begin to view it as a field of energy, transformation, and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself. Begin to notice both your internal dialogue and how you speak about your body and aging.”

People Body Energy Speak Views Fields Machines Transformation Aging Your Body Dialogue Internals

Author:Deepak Chopra

“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

“Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.”

Humans May Mean Humanity Views Gone Study Progress Modern Human Nature Aspect Machines Greed Take Time Evident

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.”

Voice Views Talent Perspective Machines Meetings Stranger Hearing Point Of View Usual Discovering Divorced Of Context Answering Machines Hearing Your Voice

Book:Slash: The Autobiography

Source: Slash: The Autobiography

“Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.”

Reason Today Jobs Individual Community Views Business Responsibility Leader Expectations Gains Machines Profit Welfare Business Leaders Escalating

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.”

Ends Whole Earth Science Purpose Certain Views Connections Machines Productions Worthy Perceive Peculiar Construction Fabric Adapted Geology

Book:Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations

Source: Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations

“As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.”

World Earth Wealth Space Poor Views Teacher Doctors Machines Opposites Productive Engineers North Pole

Author:Barry Commoner

“A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.”

Culture Black Christ Views Machines Mirrors Terror Myth Chains Toys Bike Jeans American Culture Leather Cocaine Bursting Totems Brando Chrome Thanatos

Author:Kenneth Anger

“As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?”

“There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.”

“In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be produced.”

Ifs Men Long Made Ends Seems Form Purpose Certain Views Effects Pure Models Understood Machines Relation Granted Construction Mechanism Causality Anthropomorphism

Author:Georges Canguilhem