Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place... — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Machines that give too much feedback are like backseat drivers.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them. — D. C. Fontana Copy Share Image
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did… — Mike Marsh Copy Share Image
A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge… Well, allow me to introduce myself to you… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere. — Hector Bellerin Copy Share Image
Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession. — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life. — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
![“There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.” quote by Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0da/frederic-bastiat-2151_categories_there-is-not-a-tool-an-implement-or-a-ma_1496182.png)
![“[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .” quote by Olive Schreiner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/977/olive-schreiner-10332_adapted_finishing-schools-are-nicely-adapted-mac_2337700.jpg)
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