Home / Topics / Machines Quotes

Machines Quotes

Browse 2765 quotes about Machines.

Machines Quotes

“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.”

Reality Given Imagination Talking Machines Engines Telephones My Imagination Automobile Steam Steam Engines Imagination And Reality Imagination Reality

Book:The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)

Source: The Complete Wizard of Oz (Includes Encyclopedia of Oz and Biography of L. Frank Baum)

“Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.”

Thinking Mind Believe Humans Long I Believe Imagination Technology Degrees Long Time Machines Human Mind Pace Infinity Unlikely Proceeding Matched

Book:A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit

Source: A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit

“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...”

“Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.”

Thinking Humans Imagination Chance Acting Huge Becoming All Things Machines Saving Blight Human Imagination Mechanization Thinking Alike

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.”

Needs I Can Imagination Paper Machines Release Pens My Imagination Paper And Pen

Author:Brian Pinkerton

“To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”

People Littles Different Bits Imagination Technology Little Bit Standards Machines Capture Computing Macintosh

Author:Bill Gates

“Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.”

Persons Imagination Quality Expression Products Limits Photography Machines

Author:Ansel Adams

“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.”

“I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.”

Thinking Humans Spiritual Imagination Quality Victory Machines Fruit Vain Expenses Odds Alignment Human Imagination

Author:Philip Larkin