What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-c...
The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at ...
The late Mr. , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds, that reason can only make a machine, as a clock or a ship, but the power of generation makes the maker of the machine; ... he co...
When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against...
Elias: [removing a smoking black basket of fries] I don't think these look right. Randal Graves: Jesus! Step away from the fryer before you burn us all alive! Elias: It's not my fault you abandoned your post! Randal Graves: Was it too much to ask tha...
Pvt. Willard: Big Joe, do I gotta carry all this equipment, and this satchel charge, and this .30-caliber machine gun too? Big Joe: Nah, give the .30-caliber to the hustler. He wants to be a hero. [Willard and Cowboy share a chuckle before Willard br...
President of Exchange: [Randolph Duke has just collapsed with shock] Mortimer, your brother is not well. We better call an ambulance. Mortimer Duke: Fuck him! Now, you listen to me! I want trading reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! T...
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
A machine does not care
A house is a machine for living in.
For after the Battle comes quiet.
La couleur du courage, c'est le brun
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Children and cats are the best machines of fun!
I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
