(673 quotes found)
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.”
John James Audubon
“"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell”
Douglas Jerrold
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine”
Whoopi Goldberg
“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”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! . . . HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!”
Bill Watterson
“The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.”
Marshall McLuhan
“A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica? ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews?'”
Mitch Hedberg
“You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.”
Flip Wilson
