Machines Quotes - Page 22

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

If you're eating sugar throughout the day, you're spiking your blood sugar level and you're becoming a fat storing machine.

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

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

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

A film is a machine made of images

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

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.

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.