Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'