(673 quotes found)
“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.”
Abbie Hoffman
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
Lord Kelvin
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
B. F. Skinner
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
Alan Turing
“I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.”
Charles Darwin
“Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.”
James Taylor
“The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.”
Wilbur Wright
“The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.”
Edsger Dijkstra
“He is like a shell of who he is and this machine is pumping out his lungs.”
Myfanwy Marshall
“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine”
Gilbert Ryle