I want a coffee machine that runs on gasoline and drives me to work. We can make love in the backseat, next to the cream and sugar.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

The constant back and forth between the poles of the android id and the human ego gave rise to the soul drama of the mid-Modern Age, which was simultaneously a technical drama. Its topic is...

I just invented a hug machine. It’s solar powered so you can use it when you feel depressed, like on a cloudy day. Shit.

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in...

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

You don’t have to take it out on my typewrite ya’ know. It’s not the machine’s fault that you can’t write. It’s a sin to do that to a good machine.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

The purpose creates the machine.

The thing about ‘Soft Machine’ and me was that I never considered another profession.

Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?...

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

You are your own vehicular machinery that ought to propel yourself under guidance of the compass of the Holy Spirit of God. Don’t go off the track!

I want it to be said when I leave this world that ‘he was not just a money-making machine.’

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

We’ve become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.While the media elite declare what to think,I’ll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

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.

Almost everything is like a machine.

What does it do?” you’re probably wondering. Well, I’ll tell you. What it does is makes you wonder: What does it do?

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They...

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

The economy is like a machine.

The sensitive person’s hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal...

I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that...

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

The human body is a tube and tank machine with an electrical system that is made up of trillions of cells and two fluids, which are designed to create and react to chemistry. While this...

Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.

Mulle meeldib ette kujutada, et maailm on nagu üks hiigelsuur masin. Tead, masinatel pole kunagi ühtegi üleliigset osa. Neil on täpselt ettenähtud arv kindlat tüüpi osasid, mida need vajavad. Nii et terve maailm on üks...

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I’m trained!

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the...

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in...

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving...

I realize I’m not a machine. I’m going to make mistakes.

Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They...

I need some time to recover. I’m not a machine.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Tough is to innovate; else you are just competing with photocopy machines.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

It’s great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I’m having dinner with.

Would a boring machine drill holes—or put you to sleep? I make love like a robot, so maybe I do both.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I’m more interested in music.

I am the robot in the machine. I eat wires and circuits and I was raised by a single motherboard. I also enjoy my hamburgers with ketchup, mayonnaise, and #FFFF00 mustard.

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself....

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.