Machine Quotes - page 7

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. (Ray Dalio)
Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep. View quote
Rick Riordan
The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus. View quote
Rick Riordan
You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"? View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Cindy Crawford
Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine. View quote
Susanna Tamaro
About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary? View quote
Susan Beth Pfeffer
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level. View quote
Tom Chatfield
Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. View quote
Vanilla Ice
God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence. (Vikas Swarup)
For two things both to believe that snow is white, they need not to be physically similar in any specifiable way, but they must both be in a "functional" condition or state specifiable in the most functional language; they must share a Turing machine description according to which they are both in some particular logical state (which is roughly like two different computers having the same program and being in the same "place" in the program). ... it is a type functionalism-each mental type is identifiable as a functional type in the language of Turing machine description. View quote
Daniel Dennett
That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge! View quote
James Patterson
I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. View quote
George Saunders
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine. View quote
Elizabeth Chandler
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. View quote
Joris-Karl Huysmans
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories. View quote
Linda Fairstein
The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert ... a man with a machine and inadequate culture ... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold. (Wendell Berry)
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
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. View quote
Donna Summer
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic. View quote
Pete Townshend
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. View quote
Sebastian Junger