"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. - Ray Bradbury
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. - Stefan Molyneux
Children and cats are the best machines of fun! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing
The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh. - Amadeo Bordiga
One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like flowers, I don't like machines, I don't like sugar, I don't like pepper, I don't like what you like.' This was addressed to whoever attacked Ernest. - Robert Desnos
We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is? - Debasish Mridha
When machines break down, it's people who suffer. - Marty Rubin
We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy
Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created. - Amit Kalantri
When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.-- Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966 - Gene Roddenberry
In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around. - Sarah Tregay
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor. - Arthur C. Clarke
Motivation does not mean to keep going 24/7. If you get tired, it's normal. Relax, take some rest, it may be your preventive maintenance time. Even machines are turned off some times for their preventive maintenance. - Nassef D
If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built. - Arthur R. Marshall
Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems. - Charles Edward Stoll
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. - Richard Dawkins
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions? - Robert Desnos
When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines - Waqas Rabbani
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones
And The Librarian Said "Earth Is Just A Fat Kid Being Kept Alive By Machines That Feed Him More Until It Explodes, I Recommend Temporary Starvation - The Monster Pyro
i want to go to the gymand pretend the weight machines are drumsand play the longest drum solo on them - Megan Boyle
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? - Voltaire
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. - Joris-Karl Huysmans
I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people. - Max Barry
Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. - Wilkie Collins