#machines

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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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#been #biological #build #design #fact

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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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters. ↗

— Mike Myers

#ask #back #characters #hear #i

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

— Simon Newcomb

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We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. ↗

— Jose C. Orozco

#could #earth #fashion #into #iron

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