Machines Quotes - Page 20

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

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.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

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

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall.

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

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"