The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings,… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“I hope that when machines finally take over, they won't build men that break down, as soon as they're paid for.” — Bob Kaufman Copy Share Image
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
The special effects team designed everything, which basically allowed me to stand on a green box and look and stay relatively expressionless… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We… — Max More Copy Share Image
The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ... — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
“movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense:… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls. — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own. — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases,… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go,… — Aaron Funk Copy Share Image
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
