“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.” KnowsWantTwoImportantSometimesReasonReligionSinAnswersPrideMachinesPressesPhonesSupremeAvariceSupreme BeingSin Of Pride Author:Sherwood Anderson
“The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.” LawAnswersMachinesSeriesCalculatingLeversTumbling Author:William O. Douglas
“Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyLiteratureAnswersAliveTruth IsMachinesErrorsValuableMistaken Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.” IfsTryingYearsSaidHardWisdomPoliticsAnswersNumbersEconomyTroubleLateYears AgoMachinesIncreaseSellsUnionsPlantDuesConsumersOfficialsHard TimesLiberalismOwnersLogicalCollectingAutomobileOhioClevelandCleveland Ohio Author:Ronald Reagan
“Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.” GivingActionAnswersCreativeDirectorsMachinesNotesExhausting Author:Mindy Kaling
“Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.” PrayerAnswersCapitalismMachinesCommunismCompetingSects Author:Dora Russell
“I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?” IfsAnswersMachinesMessQuestioningAnswering Machines Author:Douglas Cardinal
“I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.” NeedsHandsRunningAnswersTvsComputerMachinesPhonesLos AngelesGrenade Author:Ice T