Machine Quotes

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I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine… — Minoru Yamasaki
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment,… — Chuck Yeager
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with… — Julian Baggini
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior.… — Michael Eric Dyson
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing,… — Martin Filler
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist… — Douglas Rushkoff
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable… — Douglas Rushkoff
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in… — Douglas Rushkoff
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we… — Donna J. Haraway
This machine kills fascists. — Woody Guthrie
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empireâ€”a crackpot machineâ€”that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one… — J. G. Ballard
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and… — Bill Watterson
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. — Henri Bergson
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,… — Harlan Ellison
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. — Augusten Burroughs

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