Machine Quotes

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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So… — Knute Rockne
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine. — Jennie Finch
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes;… — Gilbert Ryle
On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of… — George Biddell Airy
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our… — Robert Strausz-Hupe
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We… — William O. Douglas
I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the… — Robert S. Mulliken
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable… — Lincoln Barnett
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory. — Saul Dushman
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the… — Simon Blackburn
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes… — Warren Buffett
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of… — Cadel Evans
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything… — Henry Beston
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is… — Pierre Marie Gallois
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your… — Elwyn Brooks White
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain

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