446 Quotes About Machines

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder and randomness. Except in the case of viruses. They can turn off and go dead. Then, if they come in contact with a living system, they switch on and multiply. (194)

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.