Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Douglas Rushkoff

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Andy Warhol

I want to be a machine.

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.

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.

There is always a student supervisor, not a personal trainer, on duty. They know how to work the machines properly.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

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.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Kevin Ayers

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

Emile Hirsch

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Eric S. Raymond

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Eric S. Raymond

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Heinz Pagels

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Joaquin Phoenix

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

Scott Erickson

Any new machines that are on the market that run Windows are great.

This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.

They're talking about turning the studios into a propaganda machine for the government, and that's wrong.

Steve Forbes

They never seem to be on the offense. Their spin machine is a little rusty.

Herbie Hancock

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Henri Bergson

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.

Jeff Bezos

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

Jim Gaffigan

Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

James Agee

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

Jeff Beck

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

George Orwell

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

George Orwell

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Evanna Lynch

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.