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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. -- Douglas Coupland
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. -- Jeremy Irons
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. -- Ernst Fischer
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- John Searle
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all. -- Ralph Merkle
Machines don't use machines. -- Conor McGregor
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. -- Alan Turing
Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines. -- Bre Pettis
Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective. -- James William Benson
Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find. -- Poul Anderson
Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile. -- Sharyn McCrumb
Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. -- Bertrand Russell
Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years. -- Judy Woodruff
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. -- Paul Gauguin
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased, -- James Baker
Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure. -- Leo Rosten
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. -- Bertrand Russell
Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom. -- Mary Roach
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. -- Moondog
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. -- Barry Eisler
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? -- Andy Warhol
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill. -- W. H. Auden
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. -- Ray Kurzweil
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods. -- Mark Weiser
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper -- Bill Walsh
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper. -- Bill Walsh
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. -- Henry Ford
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. -- Philip Emeagwali
I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines]. -- Jeremy Clarkson
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer. -- Nostradamus
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve. -- Helen Cresswell
Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die. -- Regis Debray
Women are nothing but machines for producing children. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. -- Clive James
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. -- Dave Rowntree
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. -- Flip Wilson
In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you. -- Judy Horacek
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. -- Neil Armstrong
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. -- Adam Osborne
Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. -- Don Henley
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. -- Claude Shannon
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. -- Claude Shannon
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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? -- Nicholas Negroponte
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. -- Ray Kurzweil
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. -- Edward Dahlberg
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with. -- Reggie Watts
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. -- K. Eric Drexler
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way. -- Bill Gates
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new -- Dennis Ritchie
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. -- Marvin Olasky
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still. -- Goldwin Smith
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. -- Mitch Hedberg
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites. -- Richard Dawkins
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. -- Richard Wagner
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines. -- Liam Neeson
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. -- Paul McEuen
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. -- David R. Brower
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. -- Hans Arp
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. -- Ralph Merkle
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. -- Chester W. Nimitz
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. -- James Buchan
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. -- Hans Haacke
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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. -- Andrew Weil
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. -- Bonnie Raitt
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. -- Claire Tomalin
Remember, machines don't forgive. -- Joel Salatin
We are not thinking machines... -- Peter Watts
People are machines of forgetfulness -- Henri Barbusse
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin
Human beings are just gene machines. -- Richard Dawkins
Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. -- Bruce Schneier
We're machines for turning caffeine into physics -- Nima Arkani-Hamed
Animals often strike us as passionate machines. -- Eric Hoffer
The soul paints itself in our machines. -- Joseph Joubert
We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes. -- Tony La Russa
Slot machines are like crack for old people. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
You can't trust machines. You can't trust people. -- Julie Anne Peters
Brains are not magical; they are causal machines. -- Patricia Churchland
Humans are language machines, computers are language machines. -- Howard Rheingold
Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines. -- Jacque Fresco
I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. -- Luc Ferrari
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. -- Stefan Molyneux
I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines. -- Roger Avary
I don't use machines - animals don't use machines. -- Conor McGregor
No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church]. -- Rachel Held Evans
Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes. -- Rod McKuen
Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines. -- Thomas Pynchon
We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines -- Hank Green
Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. -- Donna J. Haraway
Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package- Debora Geary -- Debora Geary
We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans. -- Jimmy Buffett
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. -- Daniel Kleppner
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines. -- Dan Simmons
I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great. -- Matt Groening
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. -- Tim Berners-Lee
We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people. -- Chris Hadfield
History is remembered by its art, not its war machines. -- James Rosenquist
Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? -- George Carlin
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home. -- Earl Long
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines. -- Fran Lebowitz
Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing! -- Christopher Atkins
Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines. -- Christina Aguilera
That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues. -- Richard Kadrey
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed. -- Seth Klarman
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines. -- Frank Zappa
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. -- Arthur Koestler
In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. -- Jules Verne
I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. -- Mitch Hedberg

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