Machines Quotes

• It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • True
  • Earth
  • Purpose

• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Computer
  • Portraits
  • Archeology

• The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Fighting
  • Machines

• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Die
  • Machines

• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Band
  • Suicide
  • Detroit

• My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

  

  Michael Cera
  • Father
  • Wide
  • Xerox

• I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

  

  Mike Wilson
  • Industry
  • Developers
  • Console

• We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Feels

• Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

  

  Eugene Grace
  • Bridge
  • Built
  • Engineers

• It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Air

• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • History
  • Blue
  • Jeans

• I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Dresses
  • Cents
  • Flip

• 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

• My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Risk

• You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • Human

• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  

  William Moore Kelly
  • Stupid
  • Computer
  • Brilliant

• We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Fall
  • Poetry
  • Quota

• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Expression

• We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Nature
  • Machines
  • Pollution

• I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

  

  Octave Chanute
  • Believe
  • Machines
  • Flight

• We hung out for the day. Nothing was choreographed. It was really cool. We just got to light up the tires all day long. And as a band, the first half of the day, we got to hang around and watch these people go off on these killer machines and do the most insane stunts we've ever seen live.

  

  Sully Erna Godsmack
  • Day
  • Machines
  • Killer

• There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Hungry
  • Breasts
  • Fats

• The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Law
  • Answers
  • Levers

• The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Car

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