Machine Quotes
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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
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Everything that humans can do a machine can do.
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Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
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A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.
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People were wired to hell. He wanted to growl like a rabid mastiff when he heard someone say, "The body is a machine." What asshole thought of that? Screwed up and angry and wanting love, fucking desperate to get it and not knowing how to get it, and willing to do anything just to get a taste of it. Or worse, striking out because you couldn't get it-all that love you wanted. The body was not a machine. Machines and computers, he could deal with. There was always a solution for the problem. What was the solution for him?
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A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
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There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures.
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And yet now that we were seventeen the substance of time itself no longer seemed fluid but had assumed a gluelike consistency and churned around us like a yellow cream in a confectioner's machine.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn’t in the mad oligarch class but once you’re past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you’re sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.
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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.
