#machine

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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

— Jan Peter Balkenende

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

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I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. ↗

— Dziga Vertov

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In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. ↗

— Henri Coanda

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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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