Machines Quotes

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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death. — William Wordsworth
I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine. — Alex Riley
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by… — Edward Steichen
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,… — George Gilder
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but… — Iggy Azalea
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. — Alan Perlis
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its… — H. L. Mencken
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth — Henry David Thoreau
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must… — Winston Churchill
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it… — Peter Ustinov
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. — Carl Sandburg
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan
We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more… — Henry Beston
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. — Arthur C. Clarke
I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have… — Prabal Gurung
A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine. — Richard Ballantine
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and… — Kurt Vonnegut
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use… — Andy Rooney

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