Machines Quotes
1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors
-
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people?…
— Theodore Kaczynski
-
I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
-
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
-
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
-
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the…
— Robert Bringhurst
-
We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.
— Steven Cojocaru
-
The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.
— Tom Hodgkinson
-
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
-
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead…
— Jerry Saltz
-
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and…
— H R Giger
-
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed…
— Maynard James Keenan
-
I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can…
— Dziga Vertov
-
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever…
— Dziga Vertov
-
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
— Clayton Christensen
-
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
-
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
— Karel Capek
-
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
— Fred W. Friendly
-
I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market…
— Joseph Epstein
-
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
— Akio Morita
-
There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their…
— Nat Friedman
-
I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a…
— Nat Friedman
-
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal…
— Nat Friedman
-
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
— Nicholas Negroponte
-
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll…
— Teena Marie
-
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
— Heinz Pagels
Who Wrote These Machines Quotes
1,263 authors contributed a total of 1,739 Machines Quotes, led by these top contributors: