Hiss Machine

Famous quotes containing the words hiss and/or machine:

“Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)