Machines Quotes

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.