Machine Quotes

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Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or… — Joseph Campbell
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of… — Joseph Campbell
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That… — Joseph Campbell
Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,… — George Orwell
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine… — George Orwell
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made… — Pope Pius XII
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of… — Octave Chanute
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the… — Thomas A. Edison
There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying… — George W. Melville
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed… — Alexander Graham Bell
I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made. — Octave Chanute
The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will… — Octave Chanute
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it… — Emile Berliner
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have… — Werner J. A. Dahm
Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red. — Peter H. Reynolds
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder… — Richard Preston
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. — Robert Anton Wilson
No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person, — Leo Fender
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting… — Jim Hightower

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