Quotes About Machine

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

our bodies often give us electric shocks, sometimes to the tune of dozens a day. It's not dangerous. We are electric after all, which is hard to remember because inside we are so wet. I breathe in and out, thinking we are really machines, fleshy machines, oxygen in, carbon dioxide out. Why am I not aware of this more often, us being such miracles, so well put together? Alive!

Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

It wasn't you, you know,' Michael said in the end. 'That wasn't the reason. You were just a device in the machine of our breaking, and we needed to break. It's not so bad, when it finally happens. You think the world is going to collapse around you but it doesn't. You can see yourself clearly again. You realise that the fear was the worst thing.

Indeed, the idea of the economy as a machine, regulated by appropriate policy levers, took firm hold.

Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.

After all, the human machine is an internal combustion engine running on spirit.

Gleda biblioteku: dva zida puna knjiga do tavanice - to je sav njegov svet. Iz njega ga niko ne ugrožava i ne ponižava. Tu bira sabesednike. Spusti pogled na radni sto i pisa?u mašinu: taj ružni predmet organ je njegovog tela; on ga na ovom svetu jedino poznaje, njemu je skoro sve rekao što je moglo da stane u re?, on je sve zapamtio.

an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

You could perfectly well have a machine whose function is to produce things that are themselves functionless. In a consumer society you might have quite a lot of these.

Only if man masters society and subordinates the economic machine to the purposes of human happiness and only if he actively participates in the social process, can he overcome what now drives him into despair—his aloneness and his feeling of powerlessness. Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as "a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly. … So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can point out in scientific or objective terms why, or how, he is not real.

She had the morals of a vacuum cleaner and the soul of a pari-mutuel machine, a good figure, and that lovely vicious face, and she only stayed with Roger long enough to get ready for her first good step upwards in life.

Alan Turing installed something known as a bombe machine, an electro-mechanical device which made hundreds

You won't do it.' Bonhart's voice resounded in the complete silence. 'You won't do it, witcher girl. In Kaer Morhen you were taught how to kill, so you kill like a machine. Instinctively. To kill yourself you need character, strength, determination and courage. And they couldn't teach you that.

In Kaer Morhen you were taught how to kill like a machine, instinctively.

A bunch of monkeys were riding the marshmallow machine straight at us and firing marshmallows at our heads.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.