Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Bill Janklow

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Helmut Jahn

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Mac said he thought he got a piece of it so it wasn't a surprise. We got the win and that's all that matters.

Mac really didn't have major-league managerial experience, and we probably wouldn't want to go that route again,

Machinery orders are important and the better-than-expected numbers will be yen-supportive.

Machine owners know they're illegal. They've been warned, and they just won't take them out.

Bobby Fischer

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

Dennis Ritchie

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

Edward Abbey

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

Edward Hirsch

'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

John Sculley

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

Rachel Corrie

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Bernie Mac

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Mike Wallace

Whether it's $200 or $300 is not going to matter. Nintendo and Microsoft are going to sell every machine they can put on the shelves.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Adam Osborne

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

We are making every machine a unique OS.

Ninety-eight percent of the work is done by machine. Machines make up for 1,000 people.

Carol Ann Duffy

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Bre Pettis

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.