Quotes on Machines

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

Author: Michael Behe

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Author: Robin Day

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.

Author: Joey Dunlop

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Author: Luc Ferrari

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

Author: Sarah Gellar

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Author: Don Henley

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Author: Clive James

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Author: Donald Knuth

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

Author: Nicholas Negroponte

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

Author: Simon Newcomb

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

Author: Philippe Perrin

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Author: Henri Poincare

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Author: Eric Raymond

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.

Author: Rose Schneiderman

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Author: John Searle

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Author: Alan Turing