Man And Machine Quotes

What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. — Benjamin Peirce

I know a guy who had his doctor say, "Take some weight off, go to a health club." The man lost 20 pounds in one week! The machine tore his leg off! — Henny Youngman

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun! — Roddy Piper

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions. — Raheel Farooq

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate. — Zoltan Kodaly

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse De Lamartine

It was a man taking a machine and a machine taking a man into secret places, into the subliminal. — Christopher Hilton

Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis — Andrew McAfee

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes. — Lynne McTaggart

Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. — Wendell Berry

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

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold. — Wendell Berry

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas Ibn Firnas

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. — Oscar Wilde

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. — R.D. Laing

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. — Stephen King

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. — Jacques Ellul

In the end, a man makes his own decisions. You decide, not the machine. — Daniel H. Wilson

The capability they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine."2 — Michael Ritland

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman. — Henry Ford

If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman. — Eleanor Dark

Down the road in the rain and snow
The man and his machine would go
Oh the secrets that old car would know
Sometimes I hear him sayin' ... — Marc Cohn

The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition. — Richard Hamming

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! — Charles Dickens

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. — Albert Camus

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand. — Neil Young

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are! — Bill Maher

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. — Will Durant

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them. — Cale Yarborough

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. — Marshall McLuhan

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. — Guillaume Apollinaire

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? — Arthur C. Clarke

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. — Eileen Gray

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

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime. — Bruce Springsteen

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

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

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — Gilbert Ryle

Telephone message on his manager's answering machine shortly before dying of heroin overdose: I need help bad, man. — Jimi Hendrix

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. — Robert C. Gallagher

The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine. — Frederick Lenz

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Being unique is what's cool man. Being normal? What's that? That's a setting on a washing machine. Nobody wants to be that. — Ashley Purdy

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. — Iris Murdoch

Compassion
that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them. — D.C. Fontana

I'm a machine man, and I head a machine. — Harry Bridges

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male. — Virginia Woolf

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. — Leonardo Da Vinci

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine. — Henry Ford

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. — Karel Capek

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. — H.L. Mencken

I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine? — Jennifer Crusie

Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it's in fact, Man with Machine synergy. — Sudipto Ghosh

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. — B.F. Skinner