Machine Shop Ear-Bender: So we were doin' paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. And me & Bill were patrolling down Nine Miles. H.I.: Bill Roberts? Machine Shop Ear-Bender: No, not that mot...
Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrori...
The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transfo...
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.
We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Almost everything is like a machine.
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine...
The modern fitness scene is largely defined by the presence of pumped up, muscle-bound bodybuilders, expensive exercise machines, and steroids. It's wasn't always this ways. There was a time when men trained to become inhumanly strong using nothing b...
To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for yo...
