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

• I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Machines

• Our principal drive is not to negotiate with hostage-takers and not to negotiate with terrorists, and this is where we find our strength is.

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • Strength
  • Principal
  • Negotiate

• They had every reason to lose tonight and they found a way to win and that's the sign of a good team.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Reason
  • Win
  • Lose

• God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Gift
  • Wages
  • Purchase

• The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.

  

  Nguyen Minh Triet
  • Success
  • Way
  • Concepts

• 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