Machines Quotes - Page 26

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call [them] machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

The purpose creates the machine.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.