Machines Quotes - Page 30

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

The machine conceals the machinations.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.

I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Language is the machine of the poet.

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light spaceship.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

I got an answering machine for my phone. . . . Now, when I'm not home and somebody calls me up . . . they hear a recording of a busy signal.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

An office is a machine for dying.