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quotes by topic Machines

" A book is a machine to think with. "

Thinking , Book , Machines

" On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. "

K. Eric Drexler

Doe , Machines

" I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. "

K. Eric Drexler

Learning , Design , Machines

" After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. "

K. Eric Drexler

Atoms , Machines , Patterns

" Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. "

G. I. Gurdjieff

Struggle , Progress , Machines

" The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet. "

World , Internet , Machines

" Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming." "

J. C. R. Licklider

Men , Machines

" People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. "

People , Machines