Chuck D Quotes

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.

I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

I've long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.