GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
“The problem, he said, wasn’t going to solve itself: “[T]oo many people are coming into the labor market and too many machines… — Martin Ford Copy Share Image
The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub-… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Theres one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body… — Shalom Harlow Copy Share Image
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of… — Johannes Gutenberg Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
By mastering both aspects of our being we remember not only how to think, but what to think. What I'm clear about… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with.… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
“Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the… — Charles Chaplin Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. — Clive James Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“The Orphic Machine is the poem: A severed head with face turned away that sings.” — Allen Grossman Copy Share Image