Machine Quotes

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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that… — J. B. Jackson
The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence… — Vaclav Havel
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking… — Paul Ormerod
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of… — Michelle Huneven
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. — Mason Cooley
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death. — William Wordsworth
I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine. — Alex Riley
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by… — Edward Steichen
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,… — George Gilder
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. — Alan Perlis
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its… — H. L. Mencken
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth — Henry David Thoreau
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must… — Winston Churchill
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it… — Peter Ustinov
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. — Carl Sandburg
I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have… — Prabal Gurung

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