Machines Quotes - Page 38

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

Never send a human to do a machine's job.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

Machinery makes men like itself.