Machines Quotes

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

Clive James

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

Elbert Hubbard

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"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

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

Alan Turing

“You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.”

John von Neumann

“It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine.”