Machine Quotes

1422 quotes by 1141 authors

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time]… — Claude Monet
Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at… — Sherwood Anderson
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or… — Rudolf Arnheim
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. — Margaret Drabble
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli… — Nikola Tesla
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. — Tommy Lee
Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking care of my… — Sebastian Telfair
There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has… — John Palfrey
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel
Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final… — John W. Campbell
When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery… — Michael Pollan
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose… — Robert Farrar Capon
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in… — Stanislaw Lem
I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people… — Judy Woodruff
Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood… — Sharlto Copley
Books are a time machine. — Jonathan Nolan
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction… — Henry Adams
When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting… — Steven Bochco
A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay. — Cass Gilbert
I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time… — Carol Rifka Brunt

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