Accomplish Quote by Julio Cortazar

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

“A journey inward may end in defeat For life as we know it was made by machines”

— Mechina - Impact Proxy

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

— Jeremy Rifkin

“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of…

— Dexter Palmer

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as it gets…

— Virginia Woolf

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and…

— George Orwell

“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid Poe and…

— D. Nathan Hilliard

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

“Poetry is an art of economy.”

— Matthew Shenoda