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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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• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

  Ralph Merkle

  Environment, Function, Changed

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

  Richard Wagner

  Hate, Men, Effort

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

  Claude Shannon

  Dog, Robots, Humans

  Omni Magazine, 1987.

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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

  Earl Long

  Sweet, Home, Voting

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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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• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  Adam Osborne

  Software, Hardware, Stills

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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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• Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Life, War, Robots

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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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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• If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Different, Faces, Common

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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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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• The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

  Havelock Ellis

  Technology, Men, Civilization

  Little Essays of Love and Virtue "The Individual and the Race" (1922)

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• I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

  Brian Eno

  Fun, Technology, People

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• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Women, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

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• We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Dream, Time

  "Fictional character: Über-Morlock". "The Time Machine", 2002.

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• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Understanding, Statistics

  Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

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• Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Entertainment, Form

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• In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

  Judy Horacek

  Messages, Hell, Left

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• We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Able

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• Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

  Alan Turing

  Surprise, Programming, Take Me

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 450, 1950.

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• Our body is a machine for living.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Health, Body, Chiropractic

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

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• Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.

  Brian Selznick

  People, Broken, Purpose

  "The Invention of Hugo Cabret". Book by Brian Selznick, www.npr.org. 2007.

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