#machine

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#every #hell #impressive #infernal #machine

I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see. ↗

— Dziga Vertov

#eye #i #i am #i can #likes

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#hype #immune #machine #nobody #swept

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cars #chinese #clear #electronics #germans

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#been #biological #build #design #fact

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#big difference #completely #degree #detail #difference

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#best #contrary #equipped #ever #fighting

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#class #classics #literature #machinery #medicine