Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.

“And I tell you straight out: suspicious this makes me, for what is the cause to bring magic back when it has been replaced…

— Neal Stephenson

“I am a M.A.G.I.C. child.. Motivated And Growing In Christ! …I hope you too are a M.A.G.I.C. dreamer!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

— Charles Babbage

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

— Charles Babbage

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man…

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one…

— Jon Landau

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal…

— Deepak Chopra

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

— Tim Berners-Lee

But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy…

— Anonymous

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without…

— Frederick Seitz

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure…

— Elliot Richardson

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

— Matthew Arnold

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have…

— Alfred Marshall

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

— Charles Dickens