Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Michael Shermer

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

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 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.

Scott Erickson

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

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

Viktor E. Frankl

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

Vaclav Havel

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

Steve Guttenberg

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Richard McKenna

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Richard Hammond

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Katy Perry

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

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

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.