Quotes by Machines What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. Oscar Wilde machinesmenart The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. Oscar Wilde insecuremachinescivilization I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good. Pat Bowlen machinesstrongrunning Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor. Pat Gillick textingmachinescommunication Brains are not magical; they are causal machines. Patricia Churchland machinesbrain The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine. Patrick Heusinger cruisemachinesguy 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. Oscar Wilde machinesevilmen In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition! Paul Lafargue machinescompetitionmen We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism. Paul Ormerod machinesneedsthinking As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes. Paul Saffo machinesforeveryears A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. Paul Verlaine machinespoetrymean Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman machinesmusicalage Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience. Pauline Oliveros tapemachinesideas Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power. Penny Lernoux machinesrunningworld Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines. Pete Townshend explanationmachinesmen The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine. Pete Townshend cynicalmachinesband I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy. Peter Beard machinescrazythinking Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines. Peter Buffett machinescenturymen We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! ... And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that's what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time... We are gonna have a party. Peter Fonda machinespartymen Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red. Peter H. Reynolds serendipitymachinesthree«3435363738394041424344»
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