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Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

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For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the m...

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I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intang...

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As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ...

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In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity an...

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We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines....

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The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and o...

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Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rap...

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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...

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The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective me...

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I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and t...

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I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so ...

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Devil's Foot

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...

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B. F. SkinnerContingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection