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"We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)"
"One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning."
"Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines."
"I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts."
"How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?"
"The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it."
"I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us."
"A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet."
"Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling."
"The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power."
"I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry."
"The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women."
"Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment."
"Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected."
"Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves."
"I want to be a machine."
"I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine."
"Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?"
"I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place."
"One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines."
