Bob Kaufman Quotes

I hope that when machines finally take over, they won't build men that break down, as soon as they're paid for.

Bob Kaufman

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• Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Easy
  • Build
  • Shallow

• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Build
  • Consequences
  • Pattern

• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Humble
  • Build
  • Nest

• My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Build

• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Build
  • Personal
  • Computers

• For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • You
  • Build

• I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Build

• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Expression

• I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Build
  • Lawn
  • Trimmer

• It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Start
  • Build
  • Hopefully

• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Mind
  • Today

• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • History
  • Blue
  • Machines

• Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Build

• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • River
  • Bridge
  • Build

• My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Risk

• It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

  

  James Sinegal
  • People
  • Successful
  • Organization

• Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • I Hope
  • Distant

• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Build

• I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Say
  • Curious

• Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Meditation
  • Be Happy
  • Seeker

• All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Believe
  • Going
  • Legislative

• No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

  

  Joshua Prager
  • Reality
  • Being
  • Narrative

• I hope that when machines finally take over, they won't build men that break down, as soon as they're paid for.

  

  Bob Kaufman
  • Build
  • Machines
  • I Hope