Quotes by Machines The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. Eric Maisel machinesartistdoe Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself. Erich Fromm machinespowerfulmen Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. Erik Brynjolfsson machinesagebrain Animals often strike us as passionate machines. Eric Hoffer machinespassionateanimal I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly. Erica Jong machinespeoplethinking We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet. Evanna Lynch machineslegacylucky Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them. Fady Joudah machineslabelsway We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine. Fady Joudah quotamachinesfall New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. Federico Garcia Lorca machinesnew-yorklying The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen Ernest Hemingway machinesfightingbeautiful Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine Fiona Apple be-kindmachinesmean If there was a better way to go then it would find me Fiona Apple machinesmeanway The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine. Francisco Varela unitymachinesorganization I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines. Fran Lebowitz machinestypewriters Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert machinesmenthinking The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. Frank Scoblete machineslustdesire They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly. Frank Scoblete gamblingfancymachines Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds? Frank Stronach foundationmachinesbuying 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. Frank Lloyd Wright machinesmaymen Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? Frank Lloyd Wright machinesageart«1112131415161718192021»
