Top 1200 Answering Machines Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.

I read all my fan comments on my social media. I love answering questions.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

Anything that we know how we do, machines will do better. Now, the key element of this phrase is, "We know how we do it." Because we do many things without knowing exactly how we do them. So this is the area where machines are vulnerable, because it still has to learn from some kind of experience. It needs something - at least the rules of the game. You have to bring in something that will help the machine to start learning. It's like square one. If there's nothing there, if you can't explain it, that's a problem.

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."

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.

Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Frequency generators have been around for decades. Royal Rife was using frequencies in the 1920's and 1930's to cure cancer. Today there are several machines using frequencies to balance out a person's energy thus eliminating the energetic frequency of the imbalance or disease. When the frequency of the disease you have has been neutralized, the disease goes away. These machines absolutely, 100 percent allow the body to virtually cure all diseases.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

I turn on the machines and start to think about ideas and take it from there, it usually begins if it's a beat, a track creating a beat/beats and then the bass-line/lines, then comes the sounds--drones, atmospherics etc, then the edits of various sounds I created and keep going till I feel I have enough sounds ideas to start working and building a track. I have many banks of sounds that we hear that can be manipulated in the machines.

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

I'm not good at answering questions. I always get myself into trouble.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

We should simply accept the fact that the way machines make decisions is different, and rather look at the result. If machines are providing results that we are looking for, you would mind how much human understanding was used in the process. And more likely we should look for the way of combining human skills and machine skills. And that, I believe, is the future role of humanity, is just to make sure it will be using this immense power of brute force of calculation for our benefit.

you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.