Quotes by Machines 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton machinesgiantsmen I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines. Haim Harari machinespeoplethinking The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet. Ha-Joon Chang machinesinternetworld A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them. Hamdi Ulukaya machineswallplant We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines Hank Green machinesbroken 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. H. G. Wells machinesworkyears Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. H. L. Mencken machinesbeautifulmen Im a machine man, and I head a machine. Harry Bridges machinesmen Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress. Harry Johnson machinesstressbody The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. Heinz Pagels clockmachinesworld None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them. Gilbert K. Chesterton progressmachinespeople People are machines of forgetfulness Henri Barbusse forgetfulnessmachinespeople The universe... is a machine for the making of gods. Henri Bergson machinesuniverse A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney. Henrik Ibsen machinespartytogether If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture. Henry Beston machinesnaturejoy I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! Henrik Ibsen machinesgenerationsscience If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it. Henry Ford machinesentrepreneurneeds We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. machinestransitionpeople Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine. Henry A. Kissinger machinescreativitygovernment What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine. Friedrich Nietzsche machinestodaymen«1516171819202122232425»
