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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, read more
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that read more
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine
Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on read more
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the read more
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.