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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing1912–1954Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 442.
- Computers
- Thinking
The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
Jules Verne1828–1905Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
- Change
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells1866–1946A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 8
- Beauty
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
E. B. White1899–1985“The Old and the New,” The New Yorker (19 June 1937)
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Personal Recollections (1981), p. 96
- Music