I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place. — Margaret J. Wheatley 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
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum… — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have… — Avi Rubin Copy Share Image
There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove.… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
