Mother Angelica
Nun, Television Personality
"God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something."
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine."
Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."
Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields."
Woody Guthrie
Singer-Songwriter
"The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine."
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"The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer."
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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"Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself."
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"A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world."
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"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion."
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"Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without."
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"A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left."
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"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."
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"What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!"
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"The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people."
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"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."
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"The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine."
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"Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions"
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"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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"The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to."
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"A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay."
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"It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine."
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"As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
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