Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Michael Lehmann

I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

The Mac remains an important part of who we are and what we do.

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Whitey Ford

They'll be very similar to the widgets you see in Apple's Mac OS X.

It's better to purchase a front-loading washing machine if you're in the market for a new machine.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

Nicholas Negroponte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Kip Thorne

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Minnie Driver

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

K. Eric Drexler

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

Kanye West

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

John F. Kennedy

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

Joaquin Phoenix

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

Heinz Pagels

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

A lot more than most Mac OS X machines will ever have open.

Steve Forbes

They never seem to be on the offense. Their spin machine is a little rusty.

There was no market because there were no Mac viruses.

Rachel Corrie

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Helmut Jahn

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.