Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Behe

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

Ray Bradbury

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Ray Bradbury

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Ralph Merkle

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.

Eric Bana

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

James Baker

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

George Gilder

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

Jon M. Chu

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Nikita Khrushchev

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

The Mac remains an important part of who we are and what we do.

Don Rittner

The Macintosh is not a computer, it's a way of life.

Carl Sandburg

The machine yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time, never watches the foreman, never talks back

The machines got us into this problem. They are going to have to get us out of it.

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

The machines are free. The handling, setup and maintenance is not.

Max Euwe

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

Madeleine L'Engle

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

John F. Kennedy

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

Lewis Black

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

John Maeda

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

K. Eric Drexler

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

K. Eric Drexler

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Kanye West

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

Max Weber

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Richard Dawkins

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Robert Moog

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.