Machine Quotes

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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I… — Charles Babbage
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or… — Charles Babbage
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its… — George Matthew Adams
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as… — J. G. Ballard
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is. — Antonio Banderas
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. — Ambrose Bierce
Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd… — Lewis Black
I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a… — Sara Blakely
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? — Ray Bradbury
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe… — James Buchan
I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically. — Sandra Bullock
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. — William S. Burroughs
I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to… — David Cameron
And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're… — Duane G. Carey
Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look… — Gary Allan
Television is the triumph of machine over people. — Fred Allen
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy… — Fred Allen

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