Machines Quotes · Page 7

As for ourselves, we love our machines.

— Florian Schneider

Machinery makes men like itself.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

— Lemmy

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

— Germaine Greer

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

— Iris Murdoch

“An office is a machine for dying.”

— Steve Aylett

A book is a machine to think with.

— Anonymous

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Every important machine's got to have a big red button.

— Joseph DeRisi

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

— Kanye West

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

— Christo

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

— Gary Sloan

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

— Henri Poincare

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

— Hermann Biggs

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

— Erich Fromm

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

— Cher

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night'…

— James Nesbitt

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

— Ray Dalio

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub-…

— Barton Gellman

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it…

— Henry David Thoreau

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more…

— George S. Patton

“The problem, he said, wasn’t going to solve itself: “[T]oo many people are coming into the labor market and too many machines…

— Martin Ford

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

— Brene Brown

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave…

— Saul Williams

If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not…

— Vandana Shiva

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a…

— Jane Goodall

There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance…

— David Guetta

The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be…

— Octave Chanute

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The…

— Tobias Lutke

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest…

— Jack Kerouac

The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a…

— Donald A. Norman

Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the…

— James Prescott Joule

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an…

— Alan Perlis

Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:…

— Charles R. Morris

you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.…

— Haruki Murakami

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One…

— Ernest Cline

We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of…

— Michael Ventura