Machines Quotes - Page 43

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.