Machine Quotes

1422 quotes by 1091 authors

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine. — Charles Yu
The PS3 is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine...With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine… — Ken Kutaragi
Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings. — Trisha Goddard
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a… — Roger Ebert
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is… — Henri Coanda
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil
How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on… — Marvin Minsky
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On… — Marvin Minsky
Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples… — Craig Stone
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns… — James Freeman Clarke
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records… — Kerry Ellis
I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like… — Debbie Harry
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough. — Thomas Frank
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast… — Stephen Fry
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. — Lou Gerstner
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. — Whoopi Goldberg
Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other… — Selena Gomez

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