Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old machine quotes, machine sayings, and machine proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.W. H. Auden
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There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.Mark Zuckerberg
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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.Frank Herbert
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To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.Horace Mann
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.Karim Rashid
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.Joseph Wood Krutch
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The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.Jacques Ellul
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.Leo Rosten
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The machine conceals the machinations.Ursula K. Le Guin
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Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.Ray Kurzweil
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.Croft M. Pentz
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Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.Judy Woodruff
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In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.Jules Verne
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Remember, machines don't forgive.Joel Salatin
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It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.Daniel H. Wilson
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The machine, yes, the machine, never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.Carl Sandburg