Machines Quotes · Page 52

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability…

— Marlon Brando

It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Russia is a very reliable and big market. I don't remember the figure but, for example, the German machine-building industry has been…

— Vladimir Putin

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

— Douglas Coupland

For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is…

— Philip Toshio Sudo

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of…

— Evan Davis

People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,…

— Don DeLillo

The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

— Noam Chomsky

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

— Simon Newcomb

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine…

— Jim Hightower

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

— James P. Gorman

In the short-run, the market is a voting machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional…

— Benjamin Graham

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our…

— Anne Sexton

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.

— Jacques Ellul

“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth?…

— John Burdett

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

— James Marcus

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but…

— Erica Jong

I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at…

— Wanda Sykes

There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature…

— Ernest K. Gann

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.

— Greg Perry

Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will…

— John Pilger

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to…

— Wendell Berry

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

— Don Henley

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the…

— Anonymous

A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of…

— Max Weber

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was…

— Reggie Watts

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

— Venus Williams

In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a…

— Georges Canguilhem

“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.”

— David Galula

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

— Thomas Carlyle

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability…

— Dennis Ritchie

A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my…

— Richard Quest

I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be…

— Errol Morris

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

— Taylor Hawkins

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to…

— Ray Kurzweil

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking…

— Sebastian Telfair