Machines Quotes

1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that… — Bill Bryson
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things. — Michael Dell
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's… — Bill Gates
It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But… — Michio Kaku
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to… — Tom Clancy
Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind.… — Walter Russell
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you… — Walter Russell
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in… — Marvin Minsky
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex… — Claude Bernard
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.… — Richard Dawkins
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. — Benjamin Disraeli
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to… — Bill Janklow
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs… — Steven Pinker
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your… — Rajneesh
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to… — Rajneesh
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson

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