Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. — Marcel Pagnol Copy Share Image
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a… — Christopher Judge Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and… — Warryn Campbell Copy Share Image
The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence. — Will Self Copy Share Image
“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For… — Philippe Perrin Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up. — Joey Dunlop Copy Share Image
“God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to the airport, I put my bag in the x-ray machine, I found out my bag has cancer. It only… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image