Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary… — Eleanor Dark 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
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
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
The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We barely had cell phones on '90210.' It started in the '90s. That's pretty much when fax machines came into play. When… — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Machines produce only machines. The texts, images, films, speech and programmes which come out of the computer are machine products, and they… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“I had a close encounter with an alien last week. He returned to visit us and was amazed we were still here.” — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape.… — George Takei Copy Share Image
There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image