Second Machine Age Quotes & Sayings

Our generation will likely have the good fortune to experience two of the most amazing events in history: the creation of true machine intelligence and the connection of all humans via a common a common digital network, transforming the planet's economics. Innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, tinkerers, and many other types of geeks will take advantage of this cornucopia to build technologies that astonish us, delight us, and work for us. Over and over again they will show how right Arthur C Clarke was when he observed that a sufficiently advanced technology can be indistinguishable from magic — Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew McAfee

If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League. — George Brett

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth. — Seth Adam Smith

If you don't have sex with me right now, I swear I will light you on fire and bury your body in the desert. — Patricia Eimer

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. — John Milton

There is no paradox. There is only irony. — Philip K. Jason

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal. — Phil Stern

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. — Erik Brynjolfsson

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. — Rabih Alameddine

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas. — Steve Coleman

Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude. — Alan Cohen

You could guarantee a decent cup of coffee in Betty's, but it went beyond the decent coffee and the respectable girls (and women) who had been parcelled up some time in the 1930s and freshly unwrapped this morning. It was the way that everything was exactly right and fitting. And clean. — Kate Atkinson

As more and more work is done by machines, people can spend more time on other activities. Not just leisure and amusements, but also on the deeper satisfactions that come from invention and exploration, from creativity and building, and from love, friendship, and community ... If the first machine age helped unlock the forces of energy trapped in chemical bonds to reshape the physical world, the real promise of the second machine age is to help unleash the power of human ingenuity. — Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew McAfee

Who's to say what's evil? A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has the right to tell you how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be. — Richard Ramirez