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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
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.
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.
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.
I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
American journalist
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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.
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.
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.
German psychologist (1904-2007)
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist