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
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
If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know.… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the… — Martin Durkin Copy Share Image
If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it,… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen… — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I think that my relationship with my fans has been very special from day one. It's been very special in spite of… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the Fifties, Canvey was a top seaside place for a youngster - the famous Canvey Island Casino was full of slot… — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled.… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine!… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
![“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.” quote by Norman Rockwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cc/norman-rockwell-14034_ashamed_the-balopticon-a-machine-that-projects-p_726705.jpg)
