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I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine. Michael Arrington

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In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. Michael Behe

Machines Components Structures Simply Proteins Molecular Molecular Machines Many Larger Biological

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. Michael Cera

Father Those Machines Gigantic About Feet Xerox Works Wide Copy

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines. Michael Ian Black

Depression Age Think Other Defensive Machines About Supermarket Steal Had Until Napping Been Lot Than Trying Did Childhood Against Might Much Interests Measure Awake Twelve Zero Eleven

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution. Michael Specter

Health World National Other Hundred Machines Harvard Data More Institute Institution Within Scientific Chemicals Least Quarter Than Precise Any Order Produces Molecule Sequence Billions University

We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause 'collateral damage' to machines that aren't the intended victim. Mikko Hypponen

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. Neil Armstrong

You Wonderful Bird Sail Flying Machines Come Closest Being Planes

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. Niall Ferguson

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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker

First Master Shoes Machines Given Adult

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. Nick Park

People thrive on genuine connections - not with machines, but with each other. You don't want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are - and will continue to be - best at. Oren Etzioni

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An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science. Oren Etzioni

Art Science Creativity People AI Focus Machines Instead Like Because Still Shines Human Where Want Place Them Personally Meaningful Working Activities Income Utopia Guaranteed

I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them. Oren Etzioni

Communicate World Better AI Collaborate Machines More Better Place Make Scientists Effectively Trying Place Them Us Use Help

All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems. Oren Etzioni

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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines. Orville Wright

Work First Our Machine Machines Ability Enthusiastic Well Due Quickly Efficient Did Shop Experimental Succeeding Taylor Who Largely Services

I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me. Philip Schultz

Home Me You Strange People Made Say Easier Machines Out Online Schedules Ticket Know Most Print Passes Sounds Very Automated Boarding Traveling Harder Actually Things Technologies

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks. Philippe Perrin

Space Walks Machines Station Some Had Over New Also Well Scientific Equipment Conduct Us Assemble Bring Desired Two

I watched 'Eurovision.' And I actually like the show. I like wind machines. I like the whole glimmer-glamour thing. That's 'Eurovision.' We love to hate it. Pilou Asbaek

Love Hate Wind Machines Like Show Whole Actually Thing Watched

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps? Richard Dooling

World Financial Made Living Complex Machines Bad Only Over Knots Make Sci-Fi Trade Arrangements Unwind Matrix Wonder Movie Experts Them Use Derive Credit Default

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. Richard Dooling

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