#machines

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#build #dealing #either #good #how

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#bring #building #doom #doorstep #even

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger. ↗

— Bill Budge

#because #bells #bells and whistles #bigger #effects

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. ↗

— David R. Brower

#chemicals #farming #fertilizer #first #fuel

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#been #carpet #creating #deal #deploying

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

#altered #believe #century #contradicted #educated

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not? ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#day #elasticity #friend #get #had

... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused together, but they looked too sophisticated to be merely hard drives. “What on earth is that?” “That’s my Kung Fu,” he said proudly, patting the top of the futuristic-looking stack. “Is that what you wanted to show me?” “No, but it’s impressive, isn’t it?” “If you say so.” Steves sighed and shook his head, so few people could appreciate the intellectual complexity of an almost untraceable hacking device. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#computers #funny #geek #geek-humor #humor

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#apple #berries #cream #day #eat

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#chip #complex #computer #fabrication #facilities