Quotes by Machines The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. George Orwell surrendermachinesdrug It is never the machines that are dead. Gerald Stanley Lee machinesbusinessmen Machinery makes men like itself. Gerald Stanley Lee machinerymachinesmen The dogma of the Ghost in the machine. Gilbert Ryle dogmamachinesghost Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going. Gillian Anderson machinesvibrationssitting Next time round Hitler will be a machine. Germaine Greer next-timemachinesnext Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. George Orwell cogscapitalistmachines I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it. George Bernard Shaw machinesdesignhands The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine. Glenn Greenwald layersmachineswings The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. George Orwell warfaremachinesuse It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used. Gottfried Leibniz machinesmenscience The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought. Gottfried Leibniz machinesforceworld In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times. Gottfried Leibniz machineswaypast Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine. Gore Vidal constitutionmachineswar Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them. Graham Taylor machineswallfootball The internet's a creepy thing, especially if you have kids. It says something very creepy about the fact that I use the same machine to masturbate with as I use to teach my kid the alphabet. Greg Giraldo machinescreepykids Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output. Greg Perry machinescomputerinput People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them. Gregory Bateson angrymachinespeople When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. Guillaume Apollinaire machinesdoemen Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes. Guy Davenport cyberneticsmachineslanguage«1415161718192021222324»
