Quotes of: Machines Keyword

[discussing the Doomsday machine] President Merkin Muffley: How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger? Dr. Strangelove: Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That i...

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Machine Class Professor: Why are you back? Rancho: Sir, I forgot to take something... Machine Class Professor: What? Rancho: Instruments that record, analyse, summarise, organise, debate and explain information; that are illustrated, non-illustrated,...

3 Idiots

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have mad...

Ashley Montagu

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits 's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine.

Fritz Lang. Filmbilder, Vorbilder

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

The will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Sachin has infinite capacity for taking pains and still making runs.

5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar

Two examples of true love are love between mother and child and love between Sachin and cricket.

5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin is a genius in the world of cricket leaving behind all those who are only talented and intelligent.

5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin's pedal sweep confirmed that physical conditions and age cannot stop you from hitting boundaries.

5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar

Through the machine I want access to Agatha’s mind. What machine? The Orafoura Gigometer Dream Accesser 4000 (The Utopian version, not the Bensalem edition).

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation.

Space Is the Machine: A Configurational Theory of Architecture

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

The Machine Stops

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

The Time Machine Did It

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.

The Time Machine Did It

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - t...

Martin Rees

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just ...

James Gleick

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Alice Walker