Machine Quotes
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I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.
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The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
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Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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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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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
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Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
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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?
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Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.
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That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
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During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
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When I say things like "I want to build a machine that can be proud of me," that's not just a joke.
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Nicky also improved the setting of the machine, which will help him in the remaining six races.
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What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.
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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
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How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
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In the B-52s, we employ a lot of people. It's a machine that keeps it all going, which is wonderful.
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Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.
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We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over these past two days.
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The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
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There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.
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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
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A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
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I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.
