196 Quotes on Machine

• And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

  Author: Jamie Zawinski

• The purpose creates the machine.

  Author: Arthur Young

• Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Author: Chuck Yeager

• I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

  Author: Will Wright

• I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

  Author: Wilbur Wright

• I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

  Author: Steven Wright

• With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

  Author: Orville Wright

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  Author: Orville Wright

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  Author: Orville Wright

• When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

  Author: Orville Wright

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  Author: Orville Wright

• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

  Author: Orville Wright

• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

  Author: Frank Wright

• We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

  Author: Ron Wood

• Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

  Author: Flip Wilson

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Author: Flip Wilson

• Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

  Author: Norbert Wiener

• Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

  Author: Paul Whiteman

• Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

  Author: Simone Weil

• I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

  Author: Bill Walton

• Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.

  Author: David Walker

• I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.

  Author: Dziga Vertov

• One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

  Author: Wietse Venema

• You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

  Author: Boris Vallejo

• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Author: Ted Turner

• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  Author: Obie Trice

• 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.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

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

  Author: Toots Thielemans

• Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

  Author: George Takei

• Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

  Author: Donna Summer

• Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  Author: William Strunk, Jr.

• A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  Author: William Strunk, Jr.

• Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

  Author: John Stockwell

• Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

  Author: Neal Stephenson

• I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

  Author: Lesley Stahl

• 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.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• 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.

  Author: Britney Spears

• I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

  Author: Valerie Solanas

• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

  Author: Robert Shea

• If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

  Author: John Searle

• My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

  Author: John Searle

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

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

  Author: David Sarnoff

• The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

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

  Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

• Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

  Author: Gilbert Ryle

• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

  Author: David Rusk

• It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

• On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

  Author: Erich Remarque

• To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

  Author: Arno Penzias

• The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

  Author: Heinz Pagels

• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

  Author: George Orwell

• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

  Author: Haruki Murakami

• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

  Author: Lewis Mumford

• To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

  Author: Lewis Mumford

• Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

  Author: Ikue Mori

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  Author: Ikue Mori

• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Author: Robert Moog

• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  Author: Marilyn Monroe

• You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

  Author: Issey Miyake

• One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

  Author: Issey Miyake

• We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• 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.

  Author: C. Mills

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  Author: H. Mencken

• 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.

  Author: Archer Martin

• The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

  Author: Marc Maron

• I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

  Author: Teena Marie

• A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

  Author: Chuck Mangione

• 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.

  Author: Wendie Malick

• One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

  Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

• But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.

  Author: Brian Lumley

• Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

  Author: Rich Lowry

• It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine.

  Author: Nia Long

• It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

  Author: Jonah Lomu

• We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  Author: Jerry Lewis

• By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

  Author: John Leonard

• The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

  Author: Steve Lacy

• Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

  Author: Henry Knox

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

  Author: Nikita Khrushchev

• The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

  Author: Elia Kazan

• My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

  Author: Jay Kay

• The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

  Author: Alan Kay

• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  Author: Irving Kaufman

• We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

  Author: Marcy Kaptur

• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Author: Elton John

• The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

  Author: James Jeans

• 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.

  Author: Bill Janklow

• We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• 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.

  Author: Miguel Icaza

• It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

  Author: Thomas Huxley

• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Author: Robert Hughes

• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

  Author: Katie Holmes

• I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

  Author: Sidney Hillman

• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Author: Mitch Hedberg

• And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

  Author: Gary Gygax

• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  Author: George Gurdjieff

• 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.

  Author: G. Gurdjieff

• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

  Author: Matt Groening

• The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

  Author: Colin Greenwood

• In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

  Author: Michael Graves

• The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

  Author: Whoopi Goldberg

• Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

  Author: Mark Goddard

• The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.

  Author: Crispin Glover

• The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

  Author: Kathie Gifford

• In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

  Author: Philip Gibbs

• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

  Author: Louis Gerstner

• On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

  Author: Richard Gallienne

• Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

  Author: Robert Gallagher

• The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

  Author: Northrop Frye

• Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

  Author: Stephen Fry

• One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

  Author: Fred Frith

• Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

  Author: Fred Friendly

• The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

  Author: Enrico Fermi

• The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

  Author: Arthur Erickson

• The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

  Author: John Edwards

• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Author: Thomas Edison

• The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

  Author: Will Durant

• In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

  Author: Minnie Driver

• The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

  Author: K. Drexler

• On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

  Author: K. Drexler

• Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

  Author: Richard Dooling

• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Author: Denis Diderot

• Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

  Author: Charles Dickens

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

  Author: Charles Darwin

• My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

  Author: Charles Darwin

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  Author: Edward Dahlberg

• The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

  Author: Cindy Crawford

• Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

  Author: David Crane

• When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

  Author: Wayne Coyne

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  Author: Rachel Corrie

• A house is a machine for living in.

  Author: Le Corbusier

• We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

  Author: Steven Cojocaru

• In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

  Author: Henri Coanda

• I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

  Author: Henri Coanda

• In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

  Author: John Clark

• It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

  Author: Morris Chestnut

• An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

  Author: Hugo Chavez

• When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

  Author: Alexander Chase

• Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

  Author: John Chapman

• And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.

  Author: Steve Case

• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

  Author: Robert Caro

• And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

  Author: Duane Carey

• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  Author: Karel Capek

• TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

  Author: Rose Byrne

• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Author: Craig Bruce

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  Author: Harry Bridges

• If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

  Author: Rory Bremner

• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  Author: Ed Bradley

• I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

  Author: Robert Blake

• Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

  Author: Jeff Bezos

• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Author: Aneurin Bevan

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  Author: Walter Benjamin

• China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

  Author: Charles Bass

• If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

  Author: Maria Bartiromo

• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  Author: Travis Barker

• We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

  Author: Jan Balkenende

• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Author: Charles Babbage

• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

  Author: Charles Babbage

• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  Author: Charles Babbage

• Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents.

  Author: Sherman Austin

• Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

  Author: Rudolf Arnheim

• It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

  Author: Dido Armstrong

• When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

  Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

• In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

  Author: Poul Anderson

• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  Author: Stewart Alsop

• Television is the triumph of machine over people.

  Author: Fred Allen

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