Machines Quotes

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

I ain't getting on no time machine.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more.

If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.