Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

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

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Carol Ann Duffy

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Bryant H. McGill

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Dave Ramsey

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Aleister Crowley

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

Cornel West

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

David Weinberger

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

Debbie Ford

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

Doug Stanhope

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

Colin Powell

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

Douglas Coupland

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

David Coverdale

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

Andrea Dworkin

Touch is the meaning of being human.

George Bernard Shaw

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Ernest Cline

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Jean Anouilh

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

John Irving

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Mariella Frostrup

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Trent Reznor

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.