By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We are going to have to have different ethics for different artificially intelligent machines. You obviously want a different set of ethics… — Gray Scott Copy Share Image
I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes… — Jack London Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers… — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should… — Helen Cresswell Copy Share Image
My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with… — David Linley Copy Share Image
A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it:… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
I can't go to the gym and sit on those machines - I'm medically unable to run because I'm just that wonky… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human. — Puff Daddy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. — Moby Copy Share Image
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image