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• Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

  Nick Park

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• Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.

  Jack Horner

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• It’s strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don’t have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

  Neil Harbisson

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• Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

  Freeman Dyson

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• Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

  Bill Walsh

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• It’s good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it’s good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

  Steve Guttenberg

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• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  Simon Newcomb

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• I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.

  Claude Shannon

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• Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

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• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  Earl Long

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• I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don’t use machines.

  Eric Bana

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• The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

  Eric Steven Raymond

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• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  Ernst Fischer

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• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won’t function at all.

  Ralph Merkle

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• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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• Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

  Charles Babbage

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• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

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