Machine Quotes

“If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a new one.”
― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows

“Every decision you make in life will stem from one of two options: love or fear. Choose love.”
― Ross Caligiuri

“You asked the impossible of a machine and the machine complied.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan

“The mind is an imperfect engine, and it does what it will with the information it receives.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.”
― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows

“To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.”
― Ross Caligiuri, Dreaming in the Shadows

“Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.”
― Jean Cocteau, Art & Faith

“..the heart is a hell of a machine. Even when it's broken, it still finds a way to carry on.”
― Crystal Cestari, The Best Kind of Magic

“It is hard to rage against the machine when you are always using one.”
― Carmine Savastano

“I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.”
― Alan J. Perlis, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

“We understand the ordinary business of living,
We know how to work the machine”
― T. S. Eliot

“This machine or creature or some combination of both that can manipulate molecules, that can store energy where it will, that can hide the bulk of its intent and its machinations from us. That lives with angels within it and with the vestiges of its own terroir, the hints of its homeland, to which it can never return because it no longer exists.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?”
― Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“What does it mean to be grounded? It means no unkind being is taking up space rent free in your body. It also means you love deeply without need for revenge. It means digging beneath the machine mind to understand and see the beauty in each human being.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“Minoru and Yoko spent many evenings at video arcades. They looked over players' shoulders until it made young kids nervous. "What the fuck's your problem, mister?" one kid in a Kiss T-shirt barked at Minoru. Arakawa asked him, "Would you like a job?"
He watched kids stand in front of the machines, transfixed, their hands melded to controllers, their bony arms like umbilical cords joining human and machine. He asked the kids questions about what made a game good. Arakawa realized that the most successful games had something the players couldn't articulate. The words used to describe them were those usually reserved to describe forms of intimacy between people. It was as if the players and the game itself somehow merged.”
― David Sheff, Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World

“The biggest cover up machine that you will ever encounter is the corporate controlled government.”
― Steven Magee

“I woke up in the middle of the night suffocating and gasping for breath. After a minute or so of difficulty breathing, I realized that there had been a electricity failure and that my continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) medical life support machine had stopped working.”
― Steven Magee

“Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves are frighteningly inert. [...] Modern machines are quintessentially microelectronic devices: they are everywhere and they are invisible. [...] Writing, power and technology are old partners in Western stories of the origin of civilization, but miniaturization has changed our experience of the mechanism.”
― Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

“Norton's Law: Anything that can be done by a machine, will be done by a machine.”
― Richie Norton

“Norton's Law: Anything that can be done by a machine, will be done by a machine.

Work will change to things that can’t be done by machines.”
― Richie Norton

“We need machines, but more than that we need humans who know how to use those machines for the greater good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“The sickest that I have ever been in life was when the doctors put me on a wide range of prescription medications and a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.”
― Steven Magee

“Do not trust the medical profession.”
― Steven Magee

“It was disabling sickness and the quest to cure it that turned on the discovery machine of the human mind.”
― Steven Magee

“Your life is not a machine - it doesn't need to have a purpose.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Perceived as an incalculable force in its own right, reified, fetishized, even demonized, the machine thus found a troubled place in the culture of the times.”
― Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age

“I can’t run more than two miles at a time, but when I am in the car I become a running machine.”
― Debasish Mridha

“How is logic like a machine? Here is how one logician explained it around the turn of the twentieth century: "As a material machine is an instrument for economising the exertion of force, so a symbolic calculus is an instrument for economising the exertion of intelligence." Logic, just like a machine, was a tool for democratizing force: built with enough precision and skill, it could multiply the power of the gifted and the average alike.”
― Jimmy Soni, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

“Testing with the CPAP machine revealed that it was triggering altitude sickness symptoms after waking, specifically ‘Descent Fatigue’ during the daytime.”
― Steven Magee

“CPAP never really worked for me and it was a few years later that the medical profession discovered I had positional sleep apnea that needed treatment with a positional device, not a CPAP machine.”
― Steven Magee