Machines Quotes

1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit… — Charles Kettering
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for… — Timothy Leary
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. — Fidel Castro
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every… — Alan Cooper
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and… — Thomas Nelson Page
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to… — Miguel de Icaza
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into… — Isak Dinesen
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages… — William A. Dembski
And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in… — Steve Case
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned… — Steve Case
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've… — Saffron Burrows
The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts. — Neale Donald Walsch
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? — Andy Warhol
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete
They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly. — Frank Scoblete
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on… — Saul Williams
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the… — Ha Jin
I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it… — Mitch Hedberg
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the… — Karel Capek
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our… — Todd Gitlin
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling… — C.S. Lewis
The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between… — Donald A. Norman
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design… — I. J. Good
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play… — Rudolf Spielmann

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