Machines Quotes - Page 10

• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Black, Wipe

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

  Michael Jackson

  World, Requirements, Defining

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• Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

  Venus Williams

  Nerves, Normal

  "Serena struggles with nerves, just like everyone else" by Melissa Isaacson, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2015.

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• After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Gun, Naps, Listening

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• The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Slot Machines, Payoff, Showbiz

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.

  Fiona Apple

  Ideas, Differences, Idlers

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so important for me to make it by hand - whether it's a pasta dough or a pâte brisée. You become involved in it. You become personal with it. For me it's such a wonderful way to get satisfaction and gratification when I'm cooking.

  Thomas Keller

  Hands, Cooking, Important

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  Katy Butler

  Want, Wanting To Die, Dies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Rivers, Rushing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

  Marvin Minsky

  Men, Done, Artificial Intelligence

  "Reflections on Artificial Intelligence". Book by Blay Whitby, 1996.

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• He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Simplicity, Soul

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

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• I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Thomas Roberts

  Mean, Voting, Slavery

  "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

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• Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

  Daniel Kahneman

  Jumping, Mind, Conclusion

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• Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Heart, Piano, Common Sense

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, World

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Transition, Clear

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, White, Noise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.

  Christian Boltanski

  Dying, Why Not, Why Now

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Cogs, Financial, Responsible

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Government, Beverages, Drink

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• I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

  Dean Ambrose

  Champion, Faces, Killing

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• Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fun, Fighting

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