"A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts."
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"Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution."
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"We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe."
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"The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue."
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"We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet."
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"For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces."
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"Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines."
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"Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas."
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"Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie."
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"In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable."
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"With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine."
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"Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was."
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"Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait"
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"Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning."
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"I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers."
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"A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement."
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"All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine."
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"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."
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"By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."
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"In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools."
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