Machines Quotes

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Flip Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Positivity

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• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  Ernst Fischer

  Greatness, Men, Perfect

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Science, Technology

  'Contingencies of Reinforcement' (1969) ch. 9

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• The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creative, Lucky, Mankind

  "What 2014 Looked Like 50 Years Ago" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2014.

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• It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

  Clive James

  Witty, Powerful, Science

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

  Rick Riordan

  People, Break, Fixed

  "The Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

  Michael Behe

  Structure, Protein, Components

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• I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

  Luc Ferrari

  Problem

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• The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Class, World, Sun

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.12, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Television is the triumph of machine over people.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, People

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• As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1962). “More lives than one”

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• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Eye, Science, Thinking

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• Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

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• A house is a machine for living in.

  Le Corbusier

  Life, Home, House

  Vers une Architecture ch. 1 (1923)

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• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

  Lou Gerstner

  Inspirational, Dream, Compassion

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• The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

  Herbie Hancock

  Ability, Exhibits

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• Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Passionate, Strikes

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• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Believe, Men

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• I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Communication, Thinking, Issues

  Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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• But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

  Liam Neeson

  Flirting, Lucky, Wake Up

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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  John Updike

  Children, Men, Ice Cream

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.244, Random House

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