E. M. Forster quote: You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it ...

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

~ E. M. Forster ~

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