Machines Quotes

1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them,… — John Lewis Gaddis
The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years… — Tim Wu
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate… — Clara Zetkin
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal… — Johannes Gutenberg
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which… — Johannes Gutenberg
The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this. — Suheir Hammad
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was… — Philip Emeagwali
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme… — Luigi Russolo
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. — Linda Fairstein
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. — Duncan Sheik
I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a… — Duncan Sheik
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr.
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity… — John Cowper Powys
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,… — Ben Lerner
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now… — Marcia Angell
I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's… — Judy Reyes
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love')… — A. O. Scott
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon
The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its… — Tucker Viemeister
If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them! — Hans Rosling
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as… — Susan Blackmore
We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines — Hank Green
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good… — Michael Graves

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