Machines Quotes · Page 49

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man.

— Jimi Hendrix

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat…

— Andrew Flintoff

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver…

— Dallas Willard

Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I…

— Demetri Martin

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings…

— Eddie Vedder

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

— Alan Turing

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

— Astro Teller

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,…

— Fady Joudah

Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not…

— Gilles Deleuze

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is…

— Russell Smith

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have…

— George Matthew Adams

Well yoy did it,"I congratulated Patch. "I´m as trained as I´ll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed.…

— Conan O'Brien

I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did.…

— Kelley Armstrong

If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job…

— Vandana Shiva

“... the cylinder itself has only just begun its revolutions ... as it gathers speed the objects grouped around its fulcrum assume,…

— Martin Vaughn-James

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to…

— Mark Twain

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

I think the truth is the Marvel fiefdom exists very independently inside the Disney world, inside the Disney universe. They're not resistant…

— Kenneth Branagh

Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed…

— Robert Heilbroner

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we…

— Miguel de Icaza

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

— Dana Gould

Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing,…

— Tina Fey

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a…

— Alex Comfort

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good…

— Margaret Atwood

I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

— Gore Vidal

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates…

— Sandra Bullock

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

— Marshall McLuhan

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on…

— Dora Russell

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

— Anna D. Shapiro

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

— W. H. Auden

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of…

— George S. Patton

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in…

— Ross MacDonald

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky