I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a disdain for conforming to mechanistic or automated systems.
Philip K. Dick reflects on the tension between human creativity and the constraints imposed by machines and technology. He emphasizes a desire for individuality and authenticity, rejecting the notion of simply following orders or adhering to artificial constructs that lack the richness of human experience and decision-making.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of creativity in the workplace.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
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