"So we watch for a machine where somebody plays for a long time but doesn't win.
"She's like a machine and somebody you can always count on by winning a lot of balls for us.
"When we start talking about waistlines and vending machines, having somebody who has the reach that she has is a lot more appealing than a hearing room with no windows.
The No. 2 privacy issue, he said, was "various things where people get their machine hijacked or somebody... breaks into various accounts of theirs".
"I cut and paste, the old scissors and paste, move the thing, then I'll get it done onto a machine, I'll have somebody type it up, print it out, then play with it, look at it, sleep on it".
But when you can impose your will on somebody, like a machine, that's the best".
"I was hoping, by holding on to that, if I found another project I could work on somebody else's machine," he said.
"When you get hit by a machine gun, it's like somebody put a hot poker in you," he told The Boston Globe in 1995.
Little things like escaping to the ice cream vending machine or ordering lunch from somebody's favorite restaurant on a call day became highlights of my week (yes, food is always an important coping mechanism in the hospital!).
Sportsmen are the pop stars of today and they will remain so until somebody invents a machine that can kick a ball, bowl a googly, tackle and slam dunk.
