Quotes by category:Machines

Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.

Galcher Lustwerk

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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.

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The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

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What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these ma... by Gary Marcus

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

what-if machines mind

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Gary Shteyngart

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For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

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The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component.... by Gary Sloan

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

machines belief safe

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

machines flying space

The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul. by Donald Trump

The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul.

machines political soul

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

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

machines kindness hands

On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.

George Biddell Airy

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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.

vacation machines men

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is n... by George Gilder

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

inexorable economy machines

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

George Gershwin

triumph machines emotional

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? by George Carlin

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

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This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people.

machines running people

A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes. by George Karl

A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes.

rebound coke machines

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

George H. W. Bush

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If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

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