Quotes by Machines There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. Nat Friedman collaborationmachinespeople A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb maintenancemachinesneeds The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less. Neal Brennan machinesvictorywriting You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one. Ned Overend machinestechniquefeelings I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me. Neal Stephenson threadmachineslittles Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good. Neil Armstrong machinesflyingunique We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it. Neil Strauss machinesnow-and-thenmatter The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts. Neale Donald Walsch law-of-attractionmachinesbigs I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. Nelson DeMille machineswritingthinking The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. Newt Gingrich unionsmachinesamerica If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better and cheaper. And Trump can't do anything to change that. Nicholas Bloom trumpmachinesschool We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart. Newt Gingrich machinesrippeople We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that? Nicholas Negroponte machinesable Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker machinesshoesadults The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. Nick Bostrom machinesmenneeds Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Nick Bostrom machineshumanityneeds The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises. Nick Harkaway machinesexercisepeople I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work. Nick Park machinesrealgiving If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter. Nick Offerman machinesminutespeople You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. Neil Gaiman machinesgunfire«3233343536373839404142»
