The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Complete barista-standard coffee machines cost from £1,600 to more than £20,000. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output. — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented. — Roger Glover Copy Share Image
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I see slip to the curb the long machines Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette Shellacked with silk and light… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.” — David Galula Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine;… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Don't you see, Doctor?" said Lasher. "The machines are to practically everbody what the white men were to the Indians. People are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the… — Dave Kopel Copy Share Image
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines? — Gary Marcus Copy Share Image
The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Anonymous Copy Share Image