Quotes
Quotes about Machine
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, statusâall these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. â¢Indira Gandhi I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. â¢Douglas Adams There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. â¢William Bennett The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. â¢Robert Frost When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. â¢Maksim Gorky One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. â¢Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. â¢Jerome K Jerome One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. â¢Bertrand Russell Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. â¢Lily Tomlin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. â¢Robert Benchley Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. â¢Thomas Edison Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. â¢Sam Ewing Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. â¢David McCullough Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. â¢John G. Pollard Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. â¢Mark Twain
...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up at your cousin's upcoming wedding receptionâ you're good with technology, have you ever considered becoming a Xerox machine repairperson?
I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!
