Compassion: that’s the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them. – Dr. Leonard McCoy Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Ultimate Computer’.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. – Heinz R. Pagels
Metaphors, similes, puns – all manner of metonymy – I’m interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine – language that can only be understood through acculturation. – Joshua Cohen
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! – Charles Dickens
When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had. – James Dyson
The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product. – Ada Yonath
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts. – Bruce Beutler
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. – Mohsin Hamid
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. – Friedrich Schiller
The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. – Enrico Fermi
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. – E. T. Bell
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. – Dean Rusk
The main song I listened to with the ‘Firebird’ books was ‘Breath of Life’ by Florence + the Machine. – Claudia Gray
The Germans are clear about what they do – cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do – electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do – they’re the workshop of the world. – Evan Davis
When I started in ’54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn’t have recording studios much around the country; we went into the radio stations and recorded our records. – Jim Ed Brown
