Machines Quotes · Page 23

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

— Taiichi Ohno

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

— Caryl Rivers

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

— Thomas Pynchon

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

— Howard Mumford Jones

[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

— George W. Bush

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

— Marco Rubio

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

— Arthur Koestler

We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

— Karim Rashid

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill…

— Horace Mann

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of…

— George H. W. Bush

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

— Reggie Watts

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

— Moondog

I was in Las Vegas, playing on the fruit machines. I was only 20 at the time and I won the jackpot…

— Adrian Lewis

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

— Andy Hargreaves

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with…

— Hugo Cabret

The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols…

— Daniel Crevier

My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he…

— S.A. Bodeen

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility.…

— Ralph Merkle

Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to…

— Joseph Campbell

The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing…

— Tim Wu

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat…

— Isak Dinesen

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform…

— Hal Abelson

Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling…

— Dinty W. Moore

“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.…

— Suzy Kassem

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It…

— Voltaire

I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in…

— Joss Whedon

Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and…

— Bill Bryson

So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus…

— Naji Sabri

Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the…

— Jean Vanier

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive.…

— Wilhelm Reich

I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.

— Rupert Everett

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

— Henry David Thoreau

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

— Richard McKenna

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

— Michael Dertouzos

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

— Austin Kleon

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

— Kalle Lasn

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

— Anonymous