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“Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.”

Humans May Mean Humanity Views Gone Study Progress Modern Human Nature Aspect Machines Greed Take Time Evident

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.”

Humans Play Use Used Human Nature Machines Patterns Consistent

Author:Miles Davis

“Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create.”

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Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.”

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Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”

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Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.”

Humans Technology Human Nature Personality Machines Contradiction Efficient Technological Flowering Human Personality

Book:Conversations with Arthur Miller

Source: Conversations with Arthur Miller

“Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.”

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Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.”

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Book:Les Belles Images

Source: Les Belles Images