Automatic law corrodes our freedom

I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the show. It's…

— Mark Margolis

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

— Larry Wall

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by…

— Igor Ivanov

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

— Mitch Kapor

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another…

— Michael Nutter

Almost everything we do is automatic, yet we're not aware of that. We feel like there's a circle of light. We're like the drunk…

— Jonathan Haidt

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the…

— William James

“„We didn’t anticipate that the formula would trigger such a violent response. In the future, you’ll only receive the unprocessed raw materials.” “So it’s…

— Rachel Caine

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is…

— Maxwell Maltz

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

— Bill Murray

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might…

— Joshua Foer

“Being happy has -huge- advantages. One, you smile more. Training of facial muscles. Automatic! But did you know that the risible muscle, the one…

— René Friedrich

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,…

— Mark Helprin

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic…

— Ben Parr

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

— Robert A. Heinlein