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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
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"Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools."
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"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
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"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
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"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Mathematics
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
Difficulty
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
Mathematics
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
Meeting
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion
"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
Time
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
Art
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
Immortality
"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
Experience
"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
Science
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