#machine

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines. ↗

— Eric Bana

#go #gym #i #lift #machines

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. ↗

— Iain Banks

#argue #consciousness #could #exhibit #find

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#go #into #litigation #machine #out

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea ↗

— Florence Welch

#florence-welch #music #musicians #funny

Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty. ↗

— Evan Davis

#biggest #boring #britain #characters #dainty

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#being #beings #complication #deal #emphasis

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#done #handwriting #i #i think #like

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#businesses #fax #first #had #i

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. ↗

— John Edwards

#carolina #country #defeated #good #good thing