Quotes About Machine

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.

The fundamental difference between a human being and a machine is perception.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

I ain't getting on no time machine.

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

Ela sempre dizia que seu cérebro não passava de uma máquina que transformava café em efeitos especiais. (Tão Ontem)

Wow, you figured that out all on your own, too. I'm impressed. You didn't even need to put a quarter in the Zoltan machine. Truly amazing. (Varyk)

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

You realize how many times you have to wet your thumb when you're counting out a million?" "You're shitting me. They must have a machine or something." "Right. A machine that wets their thumbs.

She wanted to unzip her body and step out of it. She wanted to be attached to a machine that would erase her memory, obliterate her guilt, wipe her clean.

A major constraint here in your system is this machine," says Jonah. "When you make a non-bottleneck do more work than this machine, you are not increasing productivity. On the contrary, you are doing exactly the opposite. You are creating excess inventory, which is against the goal.

Perceval might be light as a ghost made of twigs and wire. But she was Exalt, daughter of Engineers and the House of Conn, and there was machine strength in her blood.

Sally would have given Dr. Zhiruo a full report, so I didn't feel the need to warn her about Helen's uncanny relationship with the machine, and whatever had gone wrong with her-their?-programming that led to the progressive deconstruction of the ship.