Machines Quotes
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.
It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.
The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.
I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.
The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.
When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.
I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur
When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.