Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.
I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there. . . forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.
A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. . . . This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.