Machines Quotes - Page 28

• Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Wall, Hands, Robots

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• Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

  Feist

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Feist: 'I was basically raised by the Muppets'". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• 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.

  Enrico Fermi

  Numbers, Ties, Fundamentals

  Enrico Fermi, James W. Cronin (2004). “Fermi Remembered”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

  Thomas Frank

  Running, Hands, Had Enough

  "Welcome to the Blagosphere" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Moving, Limits

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• Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more.

  Selena Gomez

  Grateful, Environment, Projects

  "Disney Stars Throw Off Their Past in 'Spring Breakers'". Interview with Brooks Barnes, www.nytimes.com. march 8, 2013.

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• The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Relax, May, Helping

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

  Matt Groening

  Pinball

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Thinking, Cells

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• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Progress, Sith

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• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

  William Hague

  People, Decision, Needs

  Foreign policy forum in Berlin, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 23, 2012.

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• People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

  Lauryn Hill

  Smile, People, Needs

  "They Call Me Ms. Hill". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.

  Hulk Hogan

  Brother, Home, Thinking

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• It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Organization, Body

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews”, p.403, tredition

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• I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, People, Way

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• We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Dog, Cat, Mind

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• There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Baby, Men, Giving

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• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  Donald Knuth

  Sleep, Night, Done

  "Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming". Innovations Interview, www.informit.com. 1996.

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Ubuntu

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• I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Kids, Thinking, Waiting

  "Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

  Steve Lacy

  Interesting, Saxophone, Very Interesting

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• The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell.

  Jon Landau

  Beach, Artist, Boys

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• 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

  Jon Landau

  Crazy, Men, Self

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• People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

  Jaron Lanier

  Heart, People, Brain

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• I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Country, People, Different

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