Famous quotes containing the words abstract and/or machines:
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.”
—Judy Horacek (b. 1961)