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the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.
I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine.
Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!
A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.
It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.
I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"
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.
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.
You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.
If you're eating sugar throughout the day, you're spiking your blood sugar level and you're becoming a fat storing machine.
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.
I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it’s exact purpose!
Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.
The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.
I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.
All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.
People sometimes complain and it can feel like they think we want to lose. We're not machines where one plus one is always two.
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.