Machines Quotes - Page 2

• In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

  Michael Graves

  Good Day, Design, Feel Good

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• I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

  Wole Soyinka

  Morning, Writing, Typewriters

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• Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Adventure, Fighting

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Elton John

  Drug, Facts, Ashamed

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• The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Sweet, Men, Sweet Things

  Sherwood Anderson (2016). “Poor White”, p.231, Sherwood Anderson

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• The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Powerful, Forever, Connections

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• A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

  Antonin Scalia

  Purpose, Basements, Journalistic

  "'Get over it': Justice Scalia's most memorable quotes" by Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2016.

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• The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Europe

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• My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Firsts, Minutes, Macintosh

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• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  Travis Barker

  Suicide, Band, Detroit

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• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Leadership, Party, Political

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• Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

  Joichi Ito

  Media, People, Individualism

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• Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Gutenberg, Made, Reader

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 May 1977

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• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.94, PublicAffairs

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• I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

  John Searle

  Car, Arguing, Computer

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Men, Aggravation, Needs

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• Slot machines are like crack for old people.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  People, Cracks, Slot Machines

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• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Enough, He Man

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• People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

  Mike Myers

  Character, People, Miracle

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• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Space, Impossible

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• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  Earl Long

  Sweet, Home, Voting

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• Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

  Karl Marx

  May, Weapons, Said

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Tragedy, Gains

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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  John Searle

  Umpires, Car, Understanding

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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