I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!
I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.
A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.
If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.