Quotes
Quotes about Machine
In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
When can a machine be also a living organism? When it is a piece of music.
If something is confidential, it will be left in the copy machine.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of menâ the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.
Belief in law is essential to the philosophical conception of prayer. If the universe were a mere chaos of chances, or if it were a result of absolute necessity, there would be no place for intelligent prayer; but if it is under the control of a Lawgiver, wise and merciful, not a mere manager of material machinery, but a true Father of all, then we can come to such a Being with our requestsânot in the belief that we change His great plans, nor that any advantage could result from this if it were possible, but that these plans may be made in his boundless wisdom and love to meet our necessities.
Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, "These are human people"âhuman, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, "They are real people", nothing else is enough. (Continued tomorrow).
Moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine.
When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
