“W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'” TurnsCommunityPartySecretMovementBuildingThousandRedLaborMachinesInternationalJewMagazinesAgentsExpensiveCommunistPublicationNo MoneyMoscowCommunist PartyLabor MovementSecret Agent Author:Samuel Gompers
“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” WayRealSelfSpiritChoicesBeliefSidesHurtTechnologyProgressDangerousDrugShadowMachinesAccountsSafetyMedicineLifestyleExpensiveLazySophisticatedSelf RelianceRelianceSafety NetLifestyle ChoicesShadow Side Author:Andrew Weil
“If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all for it, but it isn't. If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. And that means all this automation that's replacing jobs and people is only going to be accelerated.” PeopleIfsWayMeanHelpingWould BeJobsPayMachinesIncreaseRaisesBest WayExpensiveMinimumMinimum WageAutomation Author:Marco Rubio
“The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.” WorldWellsStatesEconomyGenerationsDrugMachinesWeightCriminalsWelfareExpensiveObnoxiousWelfare State Author:Martin Durkin
“If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.” PeopleIfsMachinesRaisesExpensiveMinimumMinimum Wage Author:Marco Rubio
“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
“For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.” PeopleLongAbilityPerfectTechnologyStupidComputerLong TimeSmartMachinesEdgesUselessExpensiveProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesSmart PeopleStupid ThingsComputer LanguagePuzzledComputer ProgrammersProgramming FunnyPerfect Match Author:Bill Bryson
“If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.” IfsHumorFunnyComputerMachinesDareExpensiveCriticize Author:Pierre Marie Gallois
“Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time” MachinesExpensivePreferenceProgrammers Book:The Art of UNIX Programming Source: The Art of UNIX Programming
“A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews'” HumorFunnyAsksStuffImpossibleMachinesGlassesStoresChecksExpensiveCokeFathomHarmonicasCashews Author:Mitch Hedberg