Machine Quotes

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard)
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. View quote
Paul Erdős
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! View quote
Arno Allan Penzias
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. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
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... View quote
Poul Anderson
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. View quote
John Searle
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine. (Kurt Gödel)
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. View quote
Denis Diderot
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. View quote
Lewis Mumford
A house is a machine for living in. View quote
Le Corbusier
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
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. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Next time round Hitler will be a machine. View quote
Germaine Greer
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. View quote
Christian Dior
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine. View quote
Karen Blixen
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. (Margaret Atwood)
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. View quote
B. F. Skinner
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together. View quote
Saffron Burrows