Machines Quotes

1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember… — Douglas Rushkoff
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of… — Kenneth Anger
George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the… — Christopher Nolan
This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in. — Itzhak Perlman
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and… — Oscar Niemeyer
Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in… — Martin Luther
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… — Thomas Carlyle
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic… — C. Wright Mills
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I… — Haruki Murakami
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought… — Phillips Brooks
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't… — Walker Evans
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious… — Ansel Adams
A book is a machine to think with. — I. A. Richards
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state — Dean Rusk
We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. — Edward Abbey
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. — Edward Abbey
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start… — John Banville
Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and… — Minor White
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will… — Isaac Asimov
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do… — Isaac Asimov
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. — Margaret Sanger

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