Machines Quotes · Page 5

Our bodies are the time machine.

— Rudy Rucker

Remember, machines don't forgive.

— Joel Salatin

As for ourselves, we love our machines.

— Florian Schneider

We are not thinking machines.

— Peter Watts

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

— Larry Wall

Human beings are just gene machines.

— Richard Dawkins

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

— Patricia Churchland

Language is the machine of the poet.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

— Frank Carson

One of my favorite albums that I've been listening to lately is 'Midnight Machines' by Lights.

— Kiana Madeira

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.

— John W. Campbell

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

— Stanley Kubrick

“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.”

— Amit Kalantri

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

— Gary Sloan

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

— Hermann Biggs

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

— Henri Poincare

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

— Seth Godin

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of…

— Margaret Atwood

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I…

— Elizabeth Chandler

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

— Yuri Gagarin

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

— Michael Bolton

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

— Moby

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with…

— Herbert A. Simon

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first…

— Mike Wilson

The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream…

— Harriet Quimby

I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it…

— Thomas A. Edison

Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash,…

— David Autor

The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed…

— Chester Carlson

Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of…

— Theodore Dreiser

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed…

— Brian Selznick

I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political…

— Angela Alioto

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with…

— Eric Reguly

While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian…

— Bertrand Russell

A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.…

— Karen Armstrong

Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a…

— Hermann Hesse

Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in…

— Richard Peck

The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.…

— Stephen Spender

I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives…

— Frosty Wooldridge