Machines Quotes

• Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Capable

• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Brain

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

  

  Bob Ross
  • Fighting
  • Machines

• We would not permit this type of conduct in connection with the sale of cars or washing machines. It is simply unconscionable that it occurred with a critical medical device.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Connection
  • Machines
  • Device

• A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Machines
  • Narrators

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

  

  William Moore Kelly
  • Stupid
  • Computer
  • Brilliant

• I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Changed

• 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

• I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Machines
  • Hangover

• It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • People
  • Country
  • Problem

• What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

  

  Gary Marcus
  • Mind
  • Machines
  • Upload

• The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • Helping
  • Humans
  • Evolution

• A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Drawing
  • Lines
  • Unnecessary

• Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Hand
  • Hands

• I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Person
  • Machines
  • Envision

• Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Future
  • Quality

• 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

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

  

  Katy Butler
  • Die
  • Machines

• Why does gender appear in this primal scene of humans meeting their evolutionary successors, intelligent machines? What do gendered bodies have to do with the erasure of embodiment and the subsequent merging of machine and human intelligence in the figure of the cyborg?

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Humans
  • Intelligent
  • Bodies

• Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Print
  • Curse

• Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Voice
  • Phones

• The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.

  

  Amadeo Bordiga
  • Machines
  • Barbarism
  • Chimneys

• Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Machines
  • Doomsday

• Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

  

  Judy Woodruff
  • Human
  • Intelligence
  • Machines

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