Machine Quotes
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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We were doing something called telemedicine, where we were using the ultrasound. One interesting application of this ultrasound is the possibility that you could possibly use it to measure critical bone areas during a long space mission and track if you're losing bone in these areas. On Earth, when they check you for bone loss, you get in this big machine. It's the size of a room and it's got a platform with an x-ray that scans your whole body and in critical areas and it takes a while and it just wouldn't be practical to have a machine like that in space.
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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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It's a wonderful machine that had done good things, and it's got a lot of good to do yet.
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The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
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I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?
