Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a… — Teena Marie Copy Share Image
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth?… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
“... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look… — Daniel Simon Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling… — Ned Overend Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine,… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“As soon as something incredible happens, and I think I can take on the world, then boom, a warhead drops a payload… — H. Meadow Hopewell Copy Share Image
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess? — Douglas Cardinal Copy Share Image
This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
