It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient.
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?
Fashion is very complicated for machines to learn - something that is intuitive for a human is usually the hardest thing to teach a computer.
As traditional job descriptions become obsolete, people will need to collaborate in new ways with increasingly intelligent machines.
I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.
I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
I can't go to the gym and sit on those machines - I'm medically unable to run because I'm just that wonky all over. I'd love to be a runner but I'm no good.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.
Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.
I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.
I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.
Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.
I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.
I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
Mechanisms that prevent Keurig machines from using off-label coffee pods are annoying but relatively harmless.
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
From insignificance.
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.
I was in Las Vegas, playing on the fruit machines. I was only 20 at the time and I won the jackpot of $72,000, of which I couldn't claim.
This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
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