I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

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

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.