Computers Quote by Harriet Jacobs

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Machines are braver than art.”

— Donald Barthelme

“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.”

— Umberto Eco

“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.”

— Amit Kalantri

“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how…

— Jessica Riskin

“are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings”

— Ann Voskamp

“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they…

— C. Robert Cargill

“The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”

— Charles A. Beard

“The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.”

— Paul Russell

“Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Away with all these gods and godlings; they are worse than useless.”

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner