Machines Quotes

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

I think Joe [Madison] is right. What we have to do is call him out on every one of these things and then maybe somebody will take the sweet machine away from him.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine

And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.