Civilization Quote by Havelock Ellis

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with humans to…

— Jeff Dean

We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was…

— John Brunner

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

— Jeremy Rifkin

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans…

— Moshe Vardi

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the…

— Oscar Wilde

If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The…

— David Sarnoff

“Mankind made machines in his own likeness, and used them for his delight and service. The machines had no soul or they had no…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For…

— Lewis Strauss

Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us…

— Astra Taylor

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with…

— Frank Herbert