#machine

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#brighter #came #cannot #central #healthier

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#cash #credit #credit card #get #machine

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#atm #carry #cash #dollars #ever

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. ↗

— Elton John

#fact #i #machine #more #taking

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#down #endless #hands #into #little

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#believe #invent #machines #men #new

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#animation #days #gone #graphics #machines

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#arises #church #dead #institutions #machinery

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? ↗

— Jose Saramago

#does #human #human being #killing #kind