"The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also."
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"I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines."
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"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."
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"Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines."
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"I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it."
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"I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own."
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"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
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"Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine."
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"Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?"
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"The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living."
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"None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them."
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"Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy."
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"I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them."
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"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies."
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"Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work."
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"For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine."
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"Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'"
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"I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do."
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"If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul."
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"What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine."
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