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• The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

  Will Durant

  Men, Ego, Mind

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  People, Literature, Individual

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Looks, Thumbs

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.35, Penguin

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• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Once Upon A Time, Get Involved

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

  Neil Armstrong

  Bird, Flying, Sailing

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• Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

  Charles Babbage

  Lines, Information, Conveying

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.36

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• In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

  Charles Babbage

  Important, Use, Velocity

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.26

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• Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Law, Sausage

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Opportunity, Denial

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• Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

  William S. Burroughs

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

  Simone Weil

  Simone Weil (2009). “Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)”, p.140, Routledge

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• The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

  Arthur Erickson

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Language, Computer

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

  George Orwell

  Running, Food, Gun

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.67, Jester House Publishing

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• One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

  Wietse Venema

  Bugs, Intrusion, Server

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• I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fitness, Thinking, Alternatives

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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

  Rich Lowry

  Fighting, Usa, Messages

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• It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

  Dido Armstrong

  Somewhere Else, Suitcases, Disappear

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• I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

  Bill Gates

  Drinking, Glasses, Water

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• If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.

  Joe Trippi

  Mean, Campaigns, Information

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• You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Flower, Technology, Inspire

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Nature, Science, Technology

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Computer, Software, Hardware

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• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  Irving Kaufman

  Finding The One, History, Judicial System

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