Machines Quotes

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

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 and delicate mechanism.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall.

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

The economy is like a machine.

You can't mine coal without machine guns.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

To fight, we must have oil for our machine.

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.