Quotes and Sayings About Machines
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Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
-- Luis A. Ferre -
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
-- Luke Perry -
No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.
-- Lydia Davis -
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.
-- Malcolm Campbell -
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
-- Malcolm Potts -
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
-- Marc Andreessen -
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.
-- Marc Andreessen -
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
-- Marc Maron -
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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 -
A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley -
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.
-- Marion Woodman -
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley -
Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
-- Mark Goddard -
A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.
-- Mark Rippetoe -
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.
-- Mark Rippetoe -
Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.
-- Mark Ronson -
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.
-- Mark Weiser -
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.
-- Martin Filler -
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.
-- Martin Filler -
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
-- Martin Gore -
We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.
-- Mary Karr -
I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.
-- Matthew Gray Gubler -
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.
-- Max Euwe
