446 Quotes About Machines

  • Author Andrew Forrest
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    You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

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  • Author Martin Filler
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    The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

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  • Author Martin Filler
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    Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

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  • Author Stephen Fry
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    Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

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  • Author Tina Fey
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    Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

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  • Author Viktor E. Frankl
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    It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

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