Machine Quotes

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But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are.… — Jeff Bezos
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong,… — Guy Murchie
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. — Irving Kaufman
I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room. — Lenny Wilkens
This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for… — Malcolm Campbell
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine… — Alan Turing
You can't mine coal without machine guns. — Richard B. Mellon
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception… — Theodore Kaczynski
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory. — Philip K. Dick
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke… — Danny Hillis
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the… — Norbert Wiener
It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain… — Norbert Wiener
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman. — Henry Ford
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. — Kurt GÃ¶del
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods… — Frances Perkins

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