Machines Quotes - Page 17

• Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Giants, Lasts

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• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Body, Care, Way

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• I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

  Violante Placido

  Song, Crazy, Mistake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not bald - my head is just a solar panel for a sex machine.

  Telly Savalas

  Sex, Solar Panels

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• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

  Terence McKenna

  Dog, Writing, Technology

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• And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Believe, Space

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hollywood, Culture

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• We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, Reality, Engineering

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• The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eight, Levels, Four

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

  William H. Gass

  Country, Illinois, Fog

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.193, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Men, Self, Hands

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• I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

  James Marcus

  Pet, Scratches, Knows

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• A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Smart, Tasks, Way

  Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.

  Larry Constantine

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

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• You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

  Albert Einstein

  Horse, People, Car

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• The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Gun, Ak 47

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• We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

  Robert Lowell

  Tunnels, Light, Hands

  'Since 1939' (1977).

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• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Pain, Gdp

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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• The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Photographer, Compare

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• The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Kissing, Gun, Cameras

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• Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Numbers, Atm

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• Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

  Demetri Martin

  Home, Speed, Boxes

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• The internet's a creepy thing, especially if you have kids. It says something very creepy about the fact that I use the same machine to masturbate with as I use to teach my kid the alphabet.

  Greg Giraldo

  Kids, Creepy, Use

  "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2002-2004.

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• Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Political, Body

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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