machines

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

No other farm machine of this century has had such a profound effect on American agriculture as the farm tractor.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.