Quotes on Machines

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

I like to think_x000D_ (it has to be!)_x000D_ of a cybernetic ecology_x000D_ where we are free of our labors_x000D_ and joined back to nature,_x000D_ returned to our mammal_x000D_ brothers and sisters,_x000D_ and all watched over_x000D_ by machines of loving grace.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

If there was a better way to go then it would find me_x000D_ I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me_x000D_ Be kind to me, or treat me mean_x000D_ I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine