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“The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.”

Humans Hope Force Ambition Machines Active Curious Acquire

Author:John Wyndham

“You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.”

Littles Matter Action School Choices Process Responsibility Machines Active Accepted Free Will Trapped Taking Responsibility Spit Matured Responsibility For Your Life

Author:E. J. Gold

“She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.”

Running Careers Huge Mom Machines My Mom Active Handle Managers Day To Day

Author:Diana DeGarmo

“Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.”

People Way Giving Helping Would Be Bits Community Activity Capable Machines Cooking Busy Active Contribution Housework

Author:Jean Vanier

“Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.”

Needs Brain Machines Active Fantastic

Author:Peter Kinderman

“. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.”

Source: War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness

“How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She’s unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine— “Okay, I get it!” I yelled.”

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Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."”

Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990

“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”

Men Self Government Eye Father Interest Party Virtue Duty Machines Property Faults Active Appetite Quarters Self Interest Parish

Book:Selections from Carlyle

Source: Selections from Carlyle