Machines Quotes

1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of… — Rush Limbaugh
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their… — Unknown Author
A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released...… — Isaac Asimov
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far)… — Max More
Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know.… — Thomas Friedman
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in… — Ayn Rand
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river… — Louis L'Amour
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains… — Ambrose Bierce
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather… — Hal Abelson
Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another… — Peter James
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies. — Astro Teller
Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw. — Yvonne Strahovski
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these… — K. Eric Drexler
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron,… — Ronnie Wood
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. — Dave Rowntree
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for… — Eric S. Raymond
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your… — Alfred North Whitehead
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people… — Samuel Williams
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel. — Baron de Montesquieu
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't… — Boris Vallejo
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it… — Sergei Shipov
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. — Bobby Fischer

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