Machines Quotes

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Never send a human to do a machine's job.

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.

Remember, machines don't forgive.

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.