I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.
Im a machine man, and I head a machine.
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience. . . produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine. . . . The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine.
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.
Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.