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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Charles Darwin

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man’s place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Clyde Tombaugh

American astronomer (1906-1997)

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

Orville Wright

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

Lesley Stahl

American journalist

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

William S. Burroughs

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914-1997)

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.

Mitch Hedberg

American stand-up comedian

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Rudolf Arnheim

German psychologist (1904-2007)

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

Ambrose Bierce

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

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