Karel Capek quotes
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.
The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end'.
Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat 'what if?' questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, 'My little computer said such a funny thing this morning'.
Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself
I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either
You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.