Machines Quotes - Page 7

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.

Motocross might be more dangerous because it's hard to tame the machine sometimes. Wrestling, you're dealing with yourself and your own body, but when you're trying to tame the machine, that sh*t can be kind of hard sometimes.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

I don't use machines - animals don't use machines.

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.