Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.

I’ve done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers… In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

To me, music is art and science. It’s like a combination of people and machines.

The chips are in production, the machines aren’t. So we’ve got a little bit of work left to do.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

One should query oneself without defence and without limits. If I am unable to see the defects in the machines I create myself, how can I see properly into myself?

Machines don’t use machines.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day.

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.