Machines Quotes · Page 18

I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect.

— Steven Wright

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,

— Leo Fender

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

— Caroline Lawrence

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

— Cass Gilbert

“When we speak with emoji, we’re speaking a language that machines can understand.”

— Nicholas Carr

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

— Elton John

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

— Christina Aguilera

At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code.

— Ritesh Agarwal

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new…

— Betsey Johnson

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming…

— Kerry Washington

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I…

— Celine Dion

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can…

— Freeman Dyson

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

— William S. Burroughs

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of…

— Debbie Macomber

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented,…

— Bill Gates

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts…

— Katie Holmes

The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't…

— Noam Chomsky

“Sometimes I come up here at night...just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big…

— Brian Selznick

The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life.…

— Rhonda Byrne

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for…

— Marsden Wagner

Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the…

— Rick Riordan

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential…

— Tom Chatfield

For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took…

— Carl Ludwig

My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at…

— Lawrence Hargrave

Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself,…

— Rajneesh

In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They…

— Sharon Gannon

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals…

— Maurice Wilkes

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

We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni…

— Don Alias

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on…

— Gabriel Mann

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

— China Chow

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

— Alan Turing

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

— Margaret Atwood

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

— Katy Butler

“One of those useless machines they used to make,” he finally began, “was called an MRI.”

— Greg Keyes

If you want our world-known names, you can't have them unless you own the Nintendo machine.

— Satoru Iwata