Machine Quotes

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. — George Orwell
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer… — Tom Peters
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and… — Michelle Pfeiffer
With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes. — Joaquin Phoenix
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by… — Bertrand Russell
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists… — Jerry Saltz
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?… — George Saunders
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. — Friedrich Schiller
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve. — David Sarnoff
Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. — Eric Schmidt
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence. — Will Self
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of,… — Simon Sinek
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. — Robert Smith
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive… — Edward Snowden
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and… — Wole Soyinka
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing… — Britney Spears
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It… — Steven Spielberg
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn… — Bruce Springsteen

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