Computers Quote by Stanislaw Lem

“It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering…

— Iain M. Banks

“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant…

— Robert Hughes

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

— Mechina - Impact Proxy

“he night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the…

— Hazel Butler

“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can…

— Robert Desnos

“In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at…

— Anna Kavan

“What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun,…

— Mervyn Peake

“Human beings, perfected by our own technology. Only to be wielded by the chosen few. Not by the sheep but by those who are…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“The world is like a machine, there is no extra parts so your are meant to do something, even if you are a little…

— Brian Selznick

“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of…

— Harry M. Collins

“Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray…

— Nelson Mandela

“We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.”

— Ernst Toller