#machines

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#amount #conventional #equal #factory #like

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#back #blowing #bringing #encores #flashing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. ↗

— Alan Turing

#great #machines #me #surprise #take

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#copy #editors #every #machines #more

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines. ↗

— Orville Wright

#did #due #efficient #enthusiastic #experimental

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#exhibit #machines #possess #thing #wisdom

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do. ↗

— J Allard

#chips #got #left #little #little bit

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#machines #nothing #producing #women #women are