"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"25 mpg GM-1, 200 million Americans, the industry of credit."
(Weird sense transmutation... is there a car called GM-1?)
"My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"For the life of the mother's lawn care"
"The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"I think the train."
"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"Refer to your computer, you can sleep, and beauty to the British."
"As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"scheme works very well in the real world. But it is not possible."
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"Working dogs eat the house answers"
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"Antivirus software on the Internet. He said that he thought for a moment, but that alive, not in human nature. You can withdraw from your life."
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"You can move the Windows dynamic pivot table." (ROFL... I never knew Windows has a dynamic pivot table... must be a new feature in 8.)
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"Stop the production chain wheel, we have more than 10 years."
"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"If you want to run the program, however, Edison, and I do not know?"
"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"Fear bombs." (One of the earlier lines was "Fire Bombs Online". Would've made a great MMO, I think.)
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
...40 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"Stable base for the program to lie down"
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