#machine

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#beautiful #machine #man #very #works

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#flight #heavier #impossible #insignificant #machines

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

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#know #machines #mathematician #more #need

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#covering #empty #farther #go #into

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

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