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Quotes About Machine

In an analog machine each number is represented by a suitable physical quantity, whose values, measured in some pre-assigned unit, is equal to the number in question.
~ John von Neumann
Some consciences are fitted with automatic answering machine that work very well. But I never got the technology under control
~ Emile Ajar
It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky.
~ banks iain m ii
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit, and meanwhile back In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen He likes to keep his fire engine clean It's a clean machine
~ beatles quotes iv
I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.
~ Casey Neistat
I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.
~ Juergen Teller
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
~ Yolandi Visser
I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.
~ Bebe Buell
I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.
~ Jon Oringer
The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it. The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.
~ George Orwell
The mechanisation of the world could never proceed very far while taste, even the taste-buds of the tongue, remained uncorrupted, because in that case most of the products of the machine would be simply unwanted.
~ George Orwell
Why will it not work. What magic word made it work. Who is the keeper of that word. What did it profit Him to switch this one off. What a contraption it is. How did it ever run. What spark ran it. Grand little machine. Set up just so. Receiving the spark, it jumped to life.
~ George Saunders
No morn has ever dawned more favourably than ours did; and no day was ever more clouded than the present. Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
~ George Washington
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
~ Ray Dalio
If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
~ E. L. Doctorow
I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.
~ Aaron Douglas
On every show I've been on, it's just managing all the different responsibilities and time management. 'The Walking Dead' is a really well-oiled machine, and I have a great number of people who do a great number of things very well.
~ Scott M. Gimple
We can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team. In front of goal, he's like a machine. You can't shut him out completely; he always gets his chances in a game because of the lines he runs and his excellent timing.
~ Jerome Boateng
I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.
~ Lily Cole
I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.
~ Bernard Tomic
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.
~ Cary Elwes
Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
~ Chuck D