Machine Quotes

1422 quotes by 1133 authors

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man… — Marlon Brando
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can… — Rene Descartes
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric… — R. D. Laing
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen. — Bob Dylan
Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine'… — Jarvis Cocker
Almost everything is like a machine. — Ray Dalio
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships. — Ray Dalio
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. — Ray Dalio
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when… — Ben Fountain
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That… — Patricia Ireland
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering;… — Sebastian Junger
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine… — Christopher Judge
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do -… — John Maeda
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if… — Jay Kay
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to… — Jeremy Paxman
Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick — Charles Petzold
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good… — Eckhart Tolle
I ain't getting on no time machine, — Marvin Barnes
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here… — Ellen Ullman

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