State Machines

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or machines:

“An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)