Machines Quotes - Page 36

• You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Thinking, Want

  ""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character".

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• We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Stars, Silence, Pluto

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• The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

  Donald Knuth

  Algorithms, Way, Program

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• Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.

  Michael Grant

  Gun, Stories, Gone Series

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• Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

  Tina Fey

  Milk, Size, Shakes

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• talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

  Michele Jaffe

  Talking, Brain, Firsts

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• Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders, doing as you're told.

  Ilona Andrews

  Responsibility, Thinking, Order

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• Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Left Hand, Remus Lupin

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.48, Pottermore

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• Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny tiny killing machine." Daneca coos. "What's she doing?" I ask. "Purring!" says Daneca. She sounds delighted. "Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, you are.

  Holly Black

  Badass, Cat, Pet

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• [from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value

  Andy Stanton

  Mean, Clothes, Twenties

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• People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, People, Finals

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking unashamedly to be allowed to continue worshipping the miracle of the planet, and the worship of a natural system not yet touched, never touched by the machines of man. A place with the residue of God – the scent, feel, sight, taste, and sound of God – forever fresh upon it

  Rick Bass

  Men, Sight, Miracle

  Rick Bass (1996). “The book of Yaak”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hands, Forever, Survival

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Emotional, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Heart, Tears, Way

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• We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

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• Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Gun, Fire, Hands

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.99, Random House

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• About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Scary, Sound, Roaring

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Girl, Children, Home

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.79, Macmillan

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• The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

  Tom Robbins

  Cheating, Winning, Games

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.226, Bantam

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• Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Uncles, Eye

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• Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.

  Charles Yu

  People, Broken, Kind

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.164, Vintage

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• Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Communication, Information, Realizing

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• Oh, I forgot to tell you," Cookie said. "Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies." "I'm a good singer, mom." Only a twelve-year-old could make the word mom sound blasphemous. I leaned into Cookie, "Does she know its not called--?" "No," she whispered. "Are you gonna tell her?" "No. It's much funnier this way.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Lonely, Dad

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• Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Wonder, Like You

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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