Machines Quotes

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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I… — Charles Babbage
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or… — Charles Babbage
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes… — Charles Babbage
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its… — George Matthew Adams
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as… — J. G. Ballard
I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. — Eric Bana
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is. — Antonio Banderas
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go… — Drew Barrymore
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. — Ambrose Bierce
Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd… — Lewis Black
I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a… — Sara Blakely
Women are nothing but machines for producing children. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? — Ray Bradbury
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. — Ray Bradbury

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