Absurd Quote by Paul Lafargue

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of…

— Adam Smith

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

— H. L. Mencken

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest…

— Louis O. Kelso

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it…

— Henry Ford

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

However a skillful man is at making his machine but the forces of nature are not to be taken slightly.

— Anonymous

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

— Arthur C. Clarke

When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a…

— Max Stirner

“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

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci