Machines

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator

Machines

"We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet."

Home Machines Barbarians

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator

Machines

"An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on."

Doe Machines Administration

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher

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"That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine."

Facts Machines Arithmetic

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

Machines

"A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations."

Work Machines Narrators

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

Machines

"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."

Animal Machines Intention

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Vanilla Ice Rapper

Machines

"This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen."

Writing Stuff Machines

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist

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"It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine."

Firsts Machines Patient

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Thomas A. Edison Inventor

Machines

"I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph."

Science Talking Machines

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Rich Lowry Political Commentator

Machines

"Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips."

Fighting Machines Usa

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Steven Wright Comedian

Machines

"I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done."

Done Reading Machines

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer

Machines

"I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix."

Machines Like You Slave

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H. G. Wells Writer

Machines

"There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone."

Years Work Machines

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Jack Johnson Musician

Machines

"Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands."

Hands Machines Future

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Nicholson Baker Author

Machines

"Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master."

Shoes Machines Adults

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Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

Machines

"A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience."

Men May Machines

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth"

Government Machines Let It Go

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Henry Ford Industrialist

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

Men Machines Slave

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

Machines

"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."

People Literature Machines

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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet

Machines

"I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines."

Kind Machines Tape

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist

Machines

"There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works."

Men Looks Machines

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