#machine

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#fund #idea #machine #manufacture #ownership

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! ↗

— Arno Penzias

#like #machine #replaced #try #want

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#civilization #conditions #conference #education #good

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#figures #involved #love #machine #oftentimes

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#hackers #machines #new #opened #others

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#forty #germans #important #machines #minority

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#back #before #go #grandmother #had

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ↗

— Orville Wright

#fly #flying #machine #new #new york

'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game. ↗

— Toby Young

#chef #game #incredibly #machine #people