Machine Quotes
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When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.
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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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The economy is like a machine.
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Everything that humans can do a machine can do.
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Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis.
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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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A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.
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A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
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Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
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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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I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
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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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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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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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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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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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In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.
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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
