Machines Quotes - Page 39

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

If there was a better way to go then it would find me I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.