Best human-beings & machines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.”

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Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.”

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Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.”

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Author:Alex Zanardi

“The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”

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Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.”

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Author:Trisha Goddard

“The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.”

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.”

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Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.”

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Author:Stanislav Grof

“Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.”

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Author:Nell Zink

“Human beings are just gene machines.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .”

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Author:Olive Schreiner

“The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own strengths and weaknesses. The need concept is criticized as being too mechanical, as denying the autonomy and individuality of the human person, and as implying that the human being is a machine which "needs" fuel in the shape of food, engine dope in the shape of medicine, and spare parts provided by the surgeon.”

“When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.”

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Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.”

Humans Bigs Human Beings Machines

Author:Woody Guthrie

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