Machines Quotes

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

The purpose creates the machine.

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.