Big Machines Quotes

#1. Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

Daniel Kleppner

#2. The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.

Doug Jones

#3. The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

David R. Brower

#4. It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

#5. Many interesting things have been observed with neuroimaging machines. Synapses firing, electrical charges, patterns. Sparks. The big bang (birth of a thought) perhaps?

It will be most interesting to observe new information around this subject in the future.

Cheri Bauer

#6. got the Journal to buy me a Fat Mac." I had convinced the big guys in New York that if I was going to be writing about Apple, I'd better be familiar with their latest machines.

Brent Schlender

#7. The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

Grover Norquist

#8. Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and applied it to improving big, fantastic machines and chasing things that had the potential to be real breakthroughs we'd been missing.

Ashlee Vance

#9. Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.

Dov Seidman

#10. I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

Debbie Macomber

#11. The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.

Thomas Sowell

#12. I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Richard Wagner

#13. They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

Sting

#14. The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

Michael Critchton

#16. The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

#17. A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

Cynthia Kenyon

#18. Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

Kurt Godel

#19. I am big in Japan ... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Julia Voth

#20. I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

Richard Simmons

#21. If you smile things will work out.

Serena Williams

#22. All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Woody Guthrie

#23. The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

Dean Radin

#24. Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging - to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

Jessica Livingston

#25. In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual disappointment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#26. I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

Aaron Tippin

#27. In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.

Zooey Deschanel

#28. In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp.

Art Garfunkel

#29. Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

Rob Thomas

#30. I'm just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

Will Ferrell

#31. I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

Mitch Hedberg