Machine Quotes

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How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine,… — Scott Westerfeld
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. — Maxwell Maltz
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their… — Atul Gawande
The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates… — Marianne Williamson
It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine. — Viktor E. Frankl
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast… — Peter Drucker
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,… — George Orwell
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride… — W. Edwards Deming
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So… — Donna Summer
I have come to the conclusion that rowing alone won't bring top of the line erg scores. The two are really completely different. The motion… — Xeno Muller
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they… — Barry S. Strauss
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. — Leonardo da Vinci
No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite… — Nikola Tesla
Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi. — Hristo Stoichkov
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? — Joseph LeConte
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided… — Robert Nozick
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost… — Hermann Weyl

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