A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
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.
We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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?'
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
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