I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone’s imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. ‘Back to the Future’ fulfills all of those daydreams. It’s the perfect movie.

Language is the machine of the poet

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.

The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices only as well contrived to their ends as a linotype machine, an antiseptic operating plant, or an electric tram-car, there need now at the present moment be no appreciable toil in the world.

I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.

ne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Yeah, you’ll smile in my face then rip the brakes out my car

You can become an unstoppable, consistent, goal achieving machine. You just need to practice the proven strategies contained in my talks and books.

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.

You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

Machines don’t use machines.

I don’t use machines – animals don’t use machines.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

The human being is a machine. An automatic machine. It is composed of thousands of complex and delicate

mechanisms, which perform their functions harmoniously and perfectly, in accordance with laws devised for their governance, and over which the man himself has no authority, no mastership, no control.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak

You have to build the ultimate physical machine, but also the ultimate mind

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you’re like, ‘Ugh.’ So to do something with just your voice is hard.

A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The real question is not whether machines think, but whether men do.

The things we call rewards and punishments are simply the engines that move the machinery of a man’s behavior.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.

I want to get a vending machine, with fun-sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.

May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?

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.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

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.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think. Turing lies with men. Therefore, machines do not think.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.