People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines. — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours,… — Sidney Hillman Copy Share Image
The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice.… — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr Copy Share Image
All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel… — Dean Israelite Copy Share Image
An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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 really enjoy touring period! I had another band called Killing Machine, we went out on tour which was only fifteen shows… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and… — Donna M. Loring Copy Share Image
Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is…Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle… — Heinz Guderian Copy Share Image
The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I'm scared of the gym - I see all these machines, and I'm like, 'What is that? What am I supposed to… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Humans have only so many 'irreplaceable' skills, and the idea that we'll just keep outrunning the machines, skill-wise, is a folly. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image