Machines Quotes - Page 42

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.

I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

I think Joe [Madison] is right. What we have to do is call him out on every one of these things and then maybe somebody will take the sweet machine away from him.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.