Adaptation Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off.

— Karl Iagnemma

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

— Susan B. Anthony

“Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

— Sebastian Thrun

Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to…

— Fabrizio Moreira

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to…

— George William Russell

“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of…

— Elizabeth West

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this…

— Aldous Huxley

We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed…

— Tian Dayton

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need…

— Andre Norton