“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.” RealEndsSoundRecordsMachinesConsumersFactoriesTapeMechanicFidelityReal EducationHigh Fidelity Author:Alan Parsons
“The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.” ArtEndsEducationTalentPaintingMachinesFedsFactoriesAcademy Author:Edvard Munch
“When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.” EndsPassionDecisionVisionRiskProductsHugeEconomicsMachinesCreatorManufacturingSamenessVending Machines Author:Steven Bochco
“He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!” IfsLooksEndsLightPurposeTurnsUniverseLosesDarknessMachinesLook UpHeavenlyLight Within Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures
“In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.” MenLongEndsTechnologyEconomicMastersMachinesCalculations Author:Robert Heilbroner
“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.” MeanEndsTurnsGoalWealthEconomyFashionIndustryBuiltMachinesProductionsScalesGoodsLeisureDevotedConsumptionReplacedExpansionOutputObsolescence Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY
“Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war in Iraq that his brother started. All he needs is a hot tub time machine.” KnowsNeedsWarEndsPlansReadyBrotherMachinesHotIraqCampaignsPresidentialDo You KnowTubsTime MachinePresidential CampaignHot Tub Author:David Letterman