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“That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.”

Facts Activity Machines Accomplished Arithmetic

Book:Essays of Schopenhauer

Source: Essays of Schopenhauer

“The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.”

Needs Humans Mean Art States Care Political Purpose Values Loneliness Activity Eternal Machines Ultimate Aim Institutions Statements Aspiration Declaration Framework Reflecting Cargo

Author:Stephen Spender

“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Thinking Men Trying Doe Hard Play Courses Force Natural Activity Capable Machines Intense Latter Comparison Exertion

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.”

Men Needs Made Speak Products Industry Kings Activity Machines Contribution Owners Spokes Gambling Civilized Casinos Contribution To Society

Book:Desert of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Desert of the Heart: A Novel

“First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.”

Firsts Light Life Is Universe Walks Awareness Circumstances Drink Activity Rivers Machines Miracle Tea Dishes Repetition Leafs Rushing Torches Mindless

Book:Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“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

“The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.”

Ifs Knows Way Ends Form Purpose Community Results Views Common Progress Communication Activity Machines Maximum Cognizant

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.”

People Thinking Knows World Writing Has Beens Facts Lasts Modern Havens Involved Activity Machines Curious Copies Old Fashioned Domain Typewriters Duplicate Processors

Author:Susan Sontag

“When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.”

Humans Doe Information Activity Machines Performances Down And Programming Machinery Involving Pianist Human Activity Virtuoso

Author:Robert Moog

“All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.”

People Thinking Men May Would Be Speak Teach Fields Activity Speech Intellectual Machines Chess Abstract Organs Speak English

Author:Alan Turing

“The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.”

Mean States Class Violence Policy Communication Activity Machines Army Police Instruments Court Including Oppression Hostile Benevolent Reactionaries

Author:Mao Zedong