Machine Quotes - page 3

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing. (Ba Jin)
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. View quote
Ayn Rand
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn't have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). View quote
J. G. Ballard
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed. View quote
George Carlin
The immaterial Blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April [1958, together with Jean Tinguely ] had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life. (Yves Klein)
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine. View quote
Gore Vidal
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. View quote
Sol LeWitt
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. View quote
William Carlos Williams
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. View quote
William Carlos Williams
[In natural history, ] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things” now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. View quote
William S. Burroughs
You're not a man, youre a machine. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. (Ted Turner)
The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti