Machines Quotes · Page 25

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

— Thomas Carlyle

...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

— Theo van Doesburg

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

— Sam Altman

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

— Colin Angle

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

— Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

— George Ade

I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.

— Madlib

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

— Marcel Pagnol

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

— Clive James

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need…

— John Dewey

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist…

— Fred Brooks

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the…

— Paul Sears

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

— Marshall McLuhan

A hundred for England is special and there's a lot of emotion and a lot of hard work involved in getting back…

— Jonny Bairstow

I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on…

— Vinnie Jones

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the…

— Stevie Wonder

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes…

— David Byrne

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an…

— Jason Wu

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It…

— Karl Marx

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the…

— Charles Bukowski

Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player…

— David Porush

By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a…

— Max Nordau

But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are…

— Hermann Oberth

Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product… A new product has been found, something of use to…

— Humphrey Bogart

...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal…

— Anthony Burgess

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of…

— Woodrow Wilson

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves…

— Mark Haddon

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life…Live simply. Don’t…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will…

— Octave Chanute

I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.

— Roger Avary

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

— Taylor Hawkins

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

— Gottfried Leibniz

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

— Daniel Bell

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

— Nicholson Baker

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

— Jerry Coleman

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

— Hristo Stoichkov

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

— Ray Dalio