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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

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.

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'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.