Machines Quotes

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Flip Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Positivity

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• The more complicated the machine, the more problems I find it has.

  Michele Scicolone

  Problem, Complicated

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• I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Lying, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.122, Dial Press

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  Ernst Fischer

  Greatness, Men, Perfect

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• A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Intention, Blameless

  "The Lathe of Heaven". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971.

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

  Jose Saramago

  Doe, Mars, World

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• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Power, Slavery

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Machines and Emotions"

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• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  Travis Barker

  Suicide, Band, Detroit

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• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Leadership, Party, Political

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• Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Worry, Anxiety

  Charles Dickens (1845). “The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in”, p.114

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• I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Science, Generations, Literature

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Elton John

  Drug, Facts, Ashamed

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• Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Mouths

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• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Spiritual, Long

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

  Wole Soyinka

  Morning, Writing, Typewriters

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• I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sleep

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• 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.

  Norbert Wiener

  Past, Decision, Nervous

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Writing, Hype

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• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  Stewart Alsop II

  Believe, Science, Technology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

  Asa Butterfield

  Needs, World, Inspiring Movie

  "Fictional character: Hugo Cabret". "Hugo", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Firsts, Minutes, Macintosh

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• My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

  Toots Thielemans

  Father, Three, Littles

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