#machine

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#defining #developing #doing #done #else

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

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#concurred #could #court #decision #four

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#like #machine #money #treat #you

A house is a machine for living in. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#house #living #machine

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

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines

Almost everything is like a machine. ↗