Machine Quotes

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

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.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?