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The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently
The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?
The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.
This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.
People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.
The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.
I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
I was in Las Vegas, playing on the fruit machines. I was only 20 at the time and I won the jackpot of $72,000, of which I couldn't claim.
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.
When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
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.