Machine Quotes

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A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine. — Richard Ballantine
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to… — Blaise Pascal
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and… — Raymond Chandler
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my… — Luke Perry
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,… — John Jay Chapman
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders. — Jacob Bronowski
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the… — Donald Knuth
Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is. — Kevin McKidd
My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I… — Mark Mothersbaugh
The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID… — Walter Murch
I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine. — Li Na
The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the… — Thomas Berry
W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a… — Samuel Gompers
Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine… — Danny Pino
When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so… — Alexander Siddig
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does.… — George Saunders
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto… — David Tang

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