#machines

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

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#clear #efficient #greatness #imperfection #machines

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #greatest #instead #machines #make

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#details #doing #end #letting #lot

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#healthy #into #items #lunch #machines

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#although #building #companies #couple #did

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#first #forgotten #happen #honest #i

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#bike #call #concerned #convinced #death