[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of. . . paperweight that enslaves mankind.
We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.
A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.
What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes.
Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
Books are a time machine.
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.
Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.