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.
I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.
Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
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.
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
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.
You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.
I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too nea...
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
