I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.
When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.
I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.
You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,'. . . I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.
My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.