Machines Quotes

1739 Machines quotes by 1263 unique authors

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of… — Isaac Asimov
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. — Margaret Atwood
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the… — Unknown Author
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and… — Ansel Adams
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of… — Isak Dinesen
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — Gilbert Ryle
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where… — Prince Philip
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius… — Daniel Dennett
Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast… — Friedrich Naumann
The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. — Unknown Author
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve… — Unknown Author
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only… — Fulton J. Sheen
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home. — Earl Long
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting… — Marcy Kaptur
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning… — Robert Heilbroner
Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds? — Unknown Author

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