Machine Quotes

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog… — John Jay Chapman
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new… — Hugo Chavez
500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers… — Steve Ballmer
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with… — Lawrence Hargrave
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? — John Brunner
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but… — Octave Chanute
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. — Christian Dior
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable… — James Prescott Joule
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. — Marshall McLuhan
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. — William Moore Kelly
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and… — Bill Gates
As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure… — Larry Page
Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time… — Scott McNealy
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee machine at Cambridge… — Dave Barry
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. — Jeff Bezos
This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come in with their… — Martha Stewart
I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all… — Ari Emanuel

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