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More Automaton Quotes

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my… — Geraldine Brooks
• Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce
• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and… — Albert Einstein
• Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in… — William Stanley Jevons
• A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a… — William Hazlitt
• The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear,… — Nikola Tesla
• Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand… — John Grier Hibben
• I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very… — E E Cummings
• The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary… — C. Lloyd Morgan
• Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an… — Viktor E. Frankl
• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and… — Walter Lippmann

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