The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

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

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.