Machine Quotes - page 10

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine. (Philip Emeagwali)
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor. View quote
Pat Gillick
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. View quote
Patricia Ireland
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. View quote
Paul Whiteman
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. View quote
Robert Caro
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. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
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. View quote
Richard Dooling
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine. View quote
Shalom Harlow
I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two. View quote
Stephen Lang
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. View quote
Steve Case
If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world. (Steve Gleason)
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. View quote
Steve Lacy
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. View quote
Tommy Shaw
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. View quote
Toots Thielemans
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' View quote
Tristan Wilds
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. View quote
Taylor Hawkins
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. View quote
Teena Marie
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. View quote
William Strunk, Jr.
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. View quote
Wendie Malick
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion. View quote
Wietse Venema
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. (Charles Darwin)
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. View quote
Charles Darwin
...my people are facing difficulties. They are being killed in the streets. They are on the sidewalks for almost nine months now. As you know, they own more than 70 million machine guns. That's their personal weapons...Personally, I'm not protected, because my people are not protected. And therefore, the international community have to provide protection, and the United States of America, as well. They have to take a clear stance with the Yemeni people. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincer machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. View quote
Daniel Handler
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values. View quote
Charles A. Reich