Top 35 Idea Machine Quotes
#2. A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
Trevor Baylis
#3. Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.
Russell Shorto
#4. I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
Mike Duke
#5. Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.
Bruce Springsteen
#7. I like the idea of the idler wheel - it just sits in between things, but it makes such a big difference in the way that the machine is working. That concept has always been something that has interested me, but I didn't really know why.
Fiona Apple
#8. He used the word savages with affection, as if he liked them a little for it. In his nature was a respect for wildness. He saw it as a personal challenge, something that could be put right with an idea or a machine. He felt he had the answer to most problems, if anyone cared to listen.
Paul Theroux
#9. My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
Robert Smith
#10. I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
Bernard Beckett
#11. I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Philip K. Dick
#12. My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.
Brewster Kahle
#13. From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
Michael Dell
#14. I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.
Anne Waldman
#15. To be marching up the street behind red flags inscribed with elevating slogans, and then to be bumped off from an upper window by some total stranger with a sub-machine-gun - that is not my idea of a useful way to die.
George Orwell
#16. Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.
Tom Crabtree
#17. If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
Tommy Shaw
#18. For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It's such a funny, grandiose idea
Florence Welch
#19. I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.
Henri Coanda
#20. Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.
Mike Krieger
#21. Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.
Jonathan Nolan
#22. The idea becomes a machine that makes art.
Sol LeWitt
#23. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
Sol LeWitt
#24. The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
Jeremy Paxman
#25. The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
Brian Ferneyhough
#26. Your idea of romance requires a corset and a time machine.
Cath Crowley
#27. Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#28. I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
Mary Ellen Mark
#29. The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders.
Jacob Bronowski
#30. The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
Bernard Beckett
#31. And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.
Steve Case
#32. When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.
Craig Bruce
#33. Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.
Prince
#34. It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making machine,'
'I'm so glad. Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator.
Ransom Riggs
#35. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B.C. Forbes
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