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The privileged, we'll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines. — Cathy O'Neil

Machines are braver than art. — Donald Barthelme

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. — Alan Perlis

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines. — Fran Lebowitz

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself. — Umberto Eco

When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive. — Jaron Lanier

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books — Robert Benchley

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Jose Clemente Orozco

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee. — Caroline Polachek

Corporate irony; you will seen the best of machines and worst of people ever. — Vikrmn

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things. — Stanley Kubrick

Slot machines are like crack for old people. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines. — Bre Pettis

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. — Jules Verne

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

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting". — Steven Wright

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up. — Joey Dunlop

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams

A poem is a small machine made out of words. — William Carlos Williams

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks. — Alexander Ovechkin

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted. — Richard McKenna

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing! — Christopher Atkins

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine. — Hilaire Belloc

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output. — Greg Perry

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us. — Sherry Turkle

Machines have no fear of the unfamiliar. — Tyler Cowen

players on the VLT machines, — R.E. Swirsky

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude. — Robert Hughes

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. — Dave Rowntree

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. — Steve Guttenberg

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy. — Peter Beard

Tough is to innovate; else you are just competing with photocopy machines. — Vikrmn

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories ... And those that carry us forward, are dreams. — H.G.Wells

Why do washing machines eat socks? Do they taste good? Should I eat socks? — Jessica Park

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice. — Charles A. Reich

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. — Ambrose Bierce

Animals often strike us as passionate machines. — Eric Hoffer

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. — Nolan Bushnell

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. — Paul Krugman

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. — Rick Riordan

The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders. — Jacob Bronowski

I love the machines and I cannot allow them and the humans of Twinmortal to suffer.-Hanshin — Carolina Cody Aldaz

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions — Daniel Kahneman

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, — Sigfried Giedion

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings. — Trisha Goddard

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. — Nicholson Baker

Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines. — D.H. Lawrence

The soul paints itself in our machines. — Joseph Joubert

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines. — Matthew De Abaitua

As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. — Neal Stephenson

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — Jaron Lanier

I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine. — Richard Branson

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. — Stefan Molyneux

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine. — Cher

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne

As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines, but rather feeling machines that think. — Brene Brown

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. — Alan Perlis

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription. — Malcolm Potts

[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people. — George W. Bush

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out. — Ken Baumann

Our body is a machine for living. — Leo Tolstoy

They had been the rioters, the smashers of machines. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer. — Garry Kasparov

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. — Tim Berners-Lee

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines. — Satya Nadella

Healthier organizations are possible when you stop comparing them with machines and, instead, compare them with communities. — Jurgen Appelo

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine. — George Ade

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine. — Dov Davidoff

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it. — Clayton Christensen

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two ... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism. — Doris Lessing

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee. — John Zachary Young

Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines. — Dan Simmons

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. — Henry Ford

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big. — Mitch Hedberg

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine. — John F. Kennedy

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. — Don Henley

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. — Stanislaw Lem

Machinery makes men like itself. — Gerald Stanley Lee

Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package
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When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago. — Dana Gould

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you. — Winston Churchill

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. — Margaret Drabble

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people. — Andrew Keen

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good. — Jaron Lanier

People are machines of forgetfulness — Henri Barbusse

Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable. — Thomas Jefferson

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act. — Don Paterson

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! — Che Guevara

The body is a marvelous machine ... a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels — Theodor Herzl

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! — Konstantin Rokossovsky

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. — John F. Kennedy

These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they — Harriet Jacobs

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. — Pete Townshend

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. — Simone De Beauvoir

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel