Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. Walter Lippmann
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool; and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind. Henry Ward Beecher
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. John von Neumann
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery. Bertrand Russell
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker