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“The machine could understand a man who would kill, but it couldn't understand one who wouldn't. Each part of the machine-the U.S. Attorney, the judge-were nice enough in themselves. They were courteous and likable. But the human parts put together made a big vicious mechanical machine that seemed to possess, instead of feeling, only a brute force.” — Lowell Naeve
The machine could understand a man who would kill, but it couldn't understand one who wouldn't. Each part of the machine-the U.S. Attorney, the judge-were nice enough in themselves. They were courteous and likable. But the human parts put together made a big vicious mechanical machine that seemed to possess, instead of feeling, only a brute force.