Machines Quotes - Page 11

• In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

  Ted Cruz

  Gun, Texas, Littles

  FaceBook post by Ted Cruz from Aug 03, 2015

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• In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

  Ernest Cline

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences?...Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think that it's all actually happening...Would you plug in?

  Robert Nozick

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creativity, Quality, Doe

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• Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

  Moondog

  Men, Opposites, Once Upon A Time

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• I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

  Sasha Grey

  Perfect, Childhood, Different

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• Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Hip Hop, Sound

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• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  E. J. Gold

  School, Responsibility, Choices

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• The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

  Allen Grossman

  Faces

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• No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Lonely, Simple, Civilization

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.132, Penguin

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• I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine ... and grabbed it.

  Ray Kroc

  Opportunity, Saws, Six

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• The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

  Richard Hamming

  Real, Men, Competition

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• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also connect a big resistance band to a wall or something and do the exercise like that.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Wall, Exercise, Training

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Maintenance, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

  Garry Kasparov

  Revenge, War, Terror Attacks

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Expression, Kind

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Writing, People, Privilege

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

  Jack Benny

  Hurt, Fall, Earthquakes

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• If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

  Charles Handy

  Mean, Promise, Progress

  Charles B. Handy (1995). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, Random House Business Books

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• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

  Arthur Koestler

  Space, Ships, Desdemona

  1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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• I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Fall, Snacks, Candy Bar

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