#machine

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#clips #easy #favorable #fighting #machine

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#grey #how #i #just #machine

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#curb #denial #handicraft #limit #machine

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#actually #age #air #days #everything

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#beings #courts #culture #ground #high

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#atomic bomb #begin #bomb #end #engineers

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

#behind #blue-collar #change #computer #driving

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#back #down #easily #explosion #forth

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#advantage #because #big #changes #everything