Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Wally Schirra

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's quite normal. It's not a macho thing -- it's something that can happen.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Kimberley Nixon

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

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?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Charles Petzold

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Sculley

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

Adam Osborne

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

Bernie Mac

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

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.

Marcel Pagnol

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

There are probably a significant number of machines that have been compromised and nobody knows.

Ross MacDonald

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Mitt Romney

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

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