Machines Quotes - Page 5

• My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Law, Mind

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

  Will Durant

  Political, Acting, Triumph

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Money, Acting, Actresses

  Ms. Magazine (p. 38), August 1972.

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• The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

  David Sarnoff

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  David Sarnoff (1952*). “הקידמה באלקטרוניקה”

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• I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

  Britney Spears

  Writing, Thinking, Down And

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• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Health, Goes On, Body

  War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Marine, Army, Long

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Becoming, Action, Servant

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

  Erich Fromm

  School, Technology, Men

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• A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

  Dean Rusk

  Thinking, Giving, States

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Computer, Software, Hardware

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• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  Irving Kaufman

  Finding The One, History, Judicial System

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• Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

  Harry Bridges

  Men

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• I feel like I'm witnessing the
  systematic destruction of a
  people's ability to survive....
  Sometimes I sit down to dinner
  with people and I realize there
  is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill
  the people I'm having dinner with

  Rachel Corrie

  Military, People, Trying

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• I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

  Dziga Vertov

  Eye, World, Likes

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• We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Nice, Empowering, Too Much

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• The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

  Colin Greenwood

  Guitar, Computer, Efficient

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Running, Time, Today

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• When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

  Craig Reucassel

  Dark, Gun, Ideas

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• Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

  Mark Goddard

  Golf, Care, My Family

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• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Literature

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

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• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

  Marvin Olasky

  Powerful, Philosophy, Animal

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• There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

  Goldwin Smith

  Country, Black, Would Be

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Learning, Design, Facts

  Foresight Institute interview, www.foresight.org.

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