Smart Quotes Archive
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B.F. Skinner
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
- Walter Lippmann
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
- Louis Gerstner, CEO, IBM
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan