Machine Quotes

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so...

A house is a machine for living in.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into...

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. F...

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played...

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which fe...

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when...

We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lo...

Man is a tool-using animal.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, im...

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in thei...

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be s...

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at ...

The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral....

I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intang...

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ...

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you...

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall...

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary m...

The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious ...

Men have become the tools of their tools.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...

Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains fr...