Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

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

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.

Jeff Bezos

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

Iain Banks

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

Gary Shteyngart

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

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.

Henri Bergson

The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.

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

That machine saved my life. I mean, really.

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

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.

Candice Swanepoel

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

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.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

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?

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?

Joaquin Phoenix

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

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.

Kevin Ayers

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

Michio Kaku

This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

Mark Zuckerberg

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Henry Ford

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Neal Stephenson

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.