I don't speak. . . I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.
The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.
A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.
Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.
My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.