Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iain Banks

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Will Rogers

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. . . . Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

That's what they are. Machine guns. I don't know how many. I know some guns.

This year, I have been promised a better machine within the team.

That machine saved my life. I mean, really.

It's better to purchase a front-loading washing machine if you're in the market for a new machine.

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Candice Swanepoel

Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

Gilbert Ryle

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Frank Herbert

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Frank Herbert

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

Ha-Joon Chang

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

Karl Marx

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Karl Marx

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Mohsin Hamid

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

Itzhak Perlman

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

How productive do you think that machine is?

Issey Miyake

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

Bill Bradley

Before the money machine starts humming, let's pause and think about a better way,

Maisie Williams

I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.

Abraham Lincoln

I must run the machine as I find it.

I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.

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.

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.

Minnie Driver

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

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.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

Matt Groening

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.