Machines Quotes

One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

Walter Truett Anderson
God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

Mother Angelica
- Giving
- Machines

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.

Mikhail Kalashnikov
- Responsible
- Machines
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

Terence McKenna
- Acting
- Force
- Majors
You mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

Haruki Murakami
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Herbie Hancock
- Ability
- Machines