Machines Quotes - Page 8

• I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

  Jack Kirby

  Long, Joy, Fiction

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.

  Len Morgan

  Sigh Of Relief, Wings, Weather

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• Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Struggle, Air

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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  Jules Verne

  Air, Giving, Water

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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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• When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Men, Thinking

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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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• I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

  Richard Simmons

  Names, Powder, Bigs

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.

  Richard Simmons

  Workout, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos.

  Heidi Klum

  Girl, Fashion, Fun

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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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• No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.

  William E. Burrows

  Engineering, Numbers, Safety

  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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• Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

  Justin Broadrick

  Rocks, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.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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• 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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• If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heaven, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.75, New Directions Publishing

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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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