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Im a machine man, and I head a machine. -- Harry Bridges
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine. -- Harry Bridges
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings. -- Garth Brooks
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen. -- Martin Filler
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine. -- Joseph Campbell
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. -- H. L. Mencken
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. -- Northrop Frye
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. -- Karel Capek
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? -- Pablo Casals
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. -- Ernst Fischer
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. -- Will Durant
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! -- Charles Dickens
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. -- Tom Chatfield
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. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s. -- Doug Jones
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime. -- Bruce Springsteen
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about. -- Robin Day
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. -- Richard Dooling
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. -- A. S. Byatt
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun! -- Roddy Piper
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. -- Wendell Berry
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. -- Alan Perlis
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What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? -- Abbas ibn Firnas
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. -- Jacques Ellul
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman. -- Henry Ford
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. -- William Moore Kelly
war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male. -- Virginia Woolf
The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition. -- Richard Hamming
For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine. -- Henry Ford
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. -- Gilbert Ryle
Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified. -- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine. -- Mira Grant
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. -- Nathanael West
Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. -- Jimi Hendrix
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. -- Alan Turing
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. -- Benjamin Peirce
We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand. -- Neil Young
Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them. -- D. C. Fontana
You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"? -- Rick Riordan
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) -- Alphonse de Lamartine
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. -- Eileen Gray
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. -- Albert Camus
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. -- Marshall McLuhan
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. -- B. F. Skinner
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman. -- Eleanor Dark
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. -- Robert Musil
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate. -- Zoltan Kodaly
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- E. B. White
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? -- Arthur C. Clarke
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. -- R. D. Laing
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- Ambrose Bierce
During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them. -- Cale Yarborough
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.... -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
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. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
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? -- Isak Dinesen
Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are! -- Bill Maher
The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine. -- Hilaire Belloc
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a â??function', one cog in a machine. -- Yukio Mishima
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. -- Nick Bostrom
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good. -- H. L. Mencken
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson

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