Machines Quotes
1739 quotes by 1306 authors
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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
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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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
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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
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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
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
— Charles Babbage
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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
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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
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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
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I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.
— Eric Bana
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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
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
— Travis Barker
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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
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
— Ray Bradbury
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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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