“Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.” WellsTwoStatesEarthUnitedWonderUnited StatesMachinesBiggerIntelligentDollarsCongressBillionsHolesSwitzerlandGenevaIntelligent Life Author:Michio Kaku
“We need to take away the government's money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar's soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.” NeedsGovernmentValuesNumbersDependsIndustryMachinesInfiniteDollarsChecksWelfareCopiesZeroBankingMoney PowerSoundness Author:Ron Paul
“The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.” UseSportsPlayerExampleCollegeRevolutionDemandMachinesDollarsAthleteReportsProtestEpisodesContinuingDisturbingProfileExhilaratingVisibilityHigh ProfileCollege Sports Author:William C. Rhoden
“I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works.” IfsGivingUsedConsciousMachinesDollarsHonestly Author:Stuart J. Russell
“Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.” PlayUseFrontsLike YouMachinesDollarsEightBarsMotiveMelodyYou Like It Author:Miles Davis
“I met a real looker. He picked me up at the two dollar slot machines, so you know he's no cheapskate." Grandma Mazur” KnowsTwoRealMetsMachinesDollarsGrandmaSlot MachinesCheapskatesGrandma Mazur Author:Janet Evanovich
“Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It had a bead for every summer I'd been at Camp Half-Blood, but since last year I'd also kept a sand dollar on the cord. My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. He'd told me I would know when to "spend it," but so far I hadn't figured out what he meant. All I knew that it didn't fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria.” KnowsYearsStillsSchoolLastsFatherGivenHalfBloodFitSummerMachinesDollarsSandCampsLast YearCordsBeadsNecklacesCafeteriaLast SummerVending MachinesSand DollarSchool Cafeteria Author:Rick Riordan
“[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value” MeanValuesHoursFiveSixClothesMachinesTwentiesDollarsFantasticOfficialsExplainingWashingTwenty FiveChuckGumWashing Machines Author:Andy Stanton
“I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.” FunnyChangeMoneyChangedMachinesDollarsNothingnessThings ChangeFunny MoneyLending Money Book:Brain Droppings Source: Brain Droppings
“500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.” PeopleWorldSaidPlansStupidMachinesDollarsVery GoodPhonesCustomersAppealsExpensiveEmailStupid PeopleIphoneKeyboards Author:Steve Ballmer
“Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.” PayMachinesDollarsFolksPocketsCashAtmAtm Machines Author:Bill Janklow
“Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?” PeopleWorldGivingHas BeensUseKidsFacesMovingNightFoundProductsIndustryCapitalismAreasMachinesBaseballDollarsLibraryShoesMaking MoneyUrgesHospitalsFactoriesDiamondSaturdaySaturday NightDimesNew Products Author:Humphrey Bogart