Famous Quotes & Sayings

What happens is that the cane gets toppled, then the stalks get twisted, and they'll have to use machines to carry out the harvest.

We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.

Akio Morita

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

We want them to be regular customers of Atlantic City before slot machines come into Pennsylvania.

China Chow

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

Cher

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

Charlie Munger

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Charlie Munger

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

The other thing I heard from people a lot was that they were amazed that $212 million had gone through those machines than the fact that the state got so little. People were amazed at the amount of money that could have gone into the economy.

Brian McDonald

Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says.

When you take into account the fact that a large enterprise might have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines, the job of securing those machines is very difficult and keeping them secure over time is even more difficult still.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Hayden Schlossberg

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.

John Roberts

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Carl Jung

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Bill Nighy

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Bertrand Russell

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Cass Gilbert

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

Elias Canetti

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

B. C. Forbes

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Antonio Banderas

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

Ben Rattray

Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

Avi Rubin

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Avi Rubin

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Bruce Rauner

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it,

Bruce Schneier

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.