We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
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.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.
In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.
In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
Dr. Frederick Treves: Abominable things these machines - you can't reason with them,
The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.
