Machines Quotes - Page 23

• I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Racing, Stories, Done

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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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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• Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Memories, Ideas

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

  Rahki

  People, Musician, Looks

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Important, Stones, Aviation

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• I think the truth is the Marvel fiefdom exists very independently inside the Disney world, inside the Disney universe. They're not resistant to that kind of thing but they have their, you know there is a whole sort of machine energy and momentum that is the sort of creative drive behind the whole universe that has a big impact on the individual films. I'm glad those scenes got out there. And we've got a few interesting deleted scenes on this.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Impact, Interesting

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Minutes, Communicate

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.

  Hugh Laurie

  Voice, Light, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

  Tony Burgess

  Ambition, Thinking, Should Have

  Interview with Jonathan Ball, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Taken, Technology, Reality

  Source: guff.com

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• At my house I have a full-size time machine that I’ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at people’s faces when they walk into my office. They’re literally astounded.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Couple, Years, Office

  "Brains, Blood, and BBQ: Welcome to Greg Nicotero’s Zombie School". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. March 2014.

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• This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

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• Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Airplane, Mean, People

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• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Barbarians, Toys

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• I did mega-training with ex-military men. I'd be in the gym for two hours after a 12-hour day on Spooks, and it was so hardcore I'd throw up. I stuffed myself with food and drank protein shakes to bulk up. I used to be a dancer, but I had to strap my weak ankles every day and strengthen my wrists so I could hold a machine gun. My body just wasn't up to it.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, Men, Gun

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings... I tried to do it all myself then Surrounded by my stuff All I found were limitations I could not rise above There are gadgets and contraptions Immaculate machines There's a program you can download now That will even dream your dreams It'll even dream you dreams For a monthly fee Clear up your complexion You get a hundred hours free Possessions cannot save you.

  John Gorka

  Dream, Disappointment, People

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• Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.

  William E. Burrows

  Believe, Technology, Agency

  William E. Burrows (2010). “This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age”, p.560, Modern Library

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• You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Eye, Fate, Past

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• We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules.

  Wayne Dyer

  Prayer, Believe, Sky

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

  Deepak Chopra

  Technology, Phones, Fax Machines

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, United States, Mail

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Eye, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I like it when you reach into a vending machine to grab your candy bar, and that flap goes up to block you from reaching up? That's a good invention. Before that, it was hard times for the vending machine owners. "Yeah, what candy bar are you getting?" "That one, and every one on the bottom row!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Block, Humor

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