446 Quotes About Machines

  • Author Demetri Martin
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    Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

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  • Author Gabriel Mann
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    I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

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  • Author Issey Miyake
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    One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

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  • Author John Maeda
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    There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

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  • Author Judith Martin
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    Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.

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  • Author Karl Marx
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    An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

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  • Author Kevin McKidd
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    Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

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