#machines

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#know #machines #mathematician #more #need

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

— Eric S. Raymond

#hackers #machines #new #opened #others

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#called #dreams #forward #machines #memories

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#brighter #came #cannot #central #healthier

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#impossible #machines

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#believe #invent #machines #men #new