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“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.”

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Author:Sherwood Anderson

“The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.”

Law Answers Machines Series Calculating Levers Tumbling

Author:William O. Douglas

“Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.”

“Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.”

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Author:Dora Russell

“I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?”

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Author:Douglas Cardinal

“I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.”

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Author:Ice T

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?”

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Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.”

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Author:George Saunders

“I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?”

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Author:Voltaire

“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”

Kind Answers Computer Machines

Book:The Wrinkle in Time Quintet

Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet

“What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.”

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Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now it's 'What do you reckon you'll be doing at 60?' and the answer's exactly the same. I'm always going to love Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze' will still give me a hard-on when I'm hooked up to a life-support machine. Hey, even when I'm dead, they're going to have a hell of a job nailing the coffin lid down.”

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Author:Steven Tyler