Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Marshall McLuhan

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...

Mohsin Hamid

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

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.

Katy Perry

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

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.

K. Eric Drexler

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Kanye West

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

Madeleine L'Engle

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

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.

John Maeda

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

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

Bill Janklow

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Carol Ann Duffy

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Alan Lightman

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.