Machines Quotes

Books are a time machine.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

You can't trust machines. You can't trust people.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.

I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.

My body is a baby machine.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.

Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.