Machines Quotes

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

— Gilbert Ryle

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

— Glenn Greenwald

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

— William Carlos Williams

“At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.”

— Amit Kalantri

Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

— David Autor

With machinery comes power!

— Taotie

“An office is a machine for dying.”

— Steve Aylett

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

— Harry Bridges

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I'm just a Machine without you. No Heart, No Feelings.

— Raghav Singh

Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

— Charles Best

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

— Kip Thorne

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

— Anonymous

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

— Woody Guthrie

If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

— Max Lucado

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

— Jacque Fresco

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

— Ashley Purdy

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave…

— Robert Musil

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

— Jim Morrison

I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a…

— Louis MacNeice

She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a…

— Diana DeGarmo

“Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every living creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. it amuses them that so many…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge…

— Thomas Jefferson

For me, I don't think there's anything more human than technology. That's a big thing separating us from other animals: we make…

— Zoe Quinn

casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak…

— Jane Rule

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until…

— Richard Dooling

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a…

— Zhuangzi

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear…

— Issey Miyake

I think it's just about the machine is about reporting the news, and then reporting the news about the news, and then…

— Jon Stewart

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My…

— Antony Gormley

Russia is a very reliable and big market. I don't remember the figure but, for example, the German machine-building industry has been…

— Vladimir Putin

I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods,…

— Rick Riordan

The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is not my aim to surprise or shock you—but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are…

— Herbert Simon

A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of…

— Betty Sue Flowers

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a…

— James Lileks

If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later…

— Bill Joy

The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters…

— Mark Driscoll

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we…

— Kurt Vonnegut