"Television is the triumph of machine over people." — Fred Allen

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• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in… — Charles Babbage
• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is… — Charles Babbage
• Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine… — George Matthew Adams
• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A… — J. G. Ballard
• Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But… — Antonio Banderas
• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan
• Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. — Ambrose Bierce
• Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a… — Lewis Black
• I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe… — Sara Blakely
• Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? — Ray Bradbury

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