Quotes with machine

  • Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
  • Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.
  • A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
  • Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
  • Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
  • The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
  • It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
  • Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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  • Carl Sandburg The machine yes the machine
    never wastes anybody's time
    never watches the foreman
    never talks back.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Valerie Solanas To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Betsey Johnson A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Le Corbusier A house is a machine for living in.
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  • Antonin Scalia A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marilyn Monroe An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Bill Bryson And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine, should be!
    Electronic Tutors (1980)
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Robert C. Gallagher Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
    Robert C. Gallagher
     
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  • Bill Janklow Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • C. S. Lewis God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Plympton Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Blake Farenthold Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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