Computers Quote by Lewis Mumford

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make…

— Freya Stark

“Reaction against the machine-culture. - The machine, itself a product of the highest intellectual energies, sets in motion in those who server it almost…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic…

— Arthur Erickson

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of…

— Ashley Montagu

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

— Sebastian Thrun

Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people…

— Jean Vanier

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are…

— E. F. Schumacher

The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies,…

— Albert Kuvezin

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many…

— G. I. Gurdjieff