Computers Quote by Mike McCormack

“Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what he'd loosed…

— Don DeLillo

“If only it weren’t for the people, the goddamned people,” said Finnerty, “always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.”

— Neal Shusterman

“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact…

— Hugo Cabret

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of…

— Ashley Montagu

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make…

— Henry Beston

“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant…

— Robert Hughes

“A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire…

— Leigh Hershkovich

“The universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine.”

— Sir James Jeans

“But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff