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“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”

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Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.”

Ideas Philosophy Changed Birth Machines Science Fiction Invention Bombs Pills Birth Control Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb Birth Control Pills

Author:Ray Bradbury

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.”

Way Children Littles Said Different Enough Kids Changed Grew Mom Internet Computer Grew Up Okay Machines My Children Electricity Teenage Answering Machines Teenage Life

Author:Jennifer Egan

“The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.”

World Changed Internet Machines Washing Washing Machines

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.”

Ifs Years Mind Made Lasts Moving Lines Interesting Wonder Changed Machines Stuck Verses Deliberate Typewriters

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.”

People Thinking Way Stills Happens Changed Machines Treated Sexism Publicity Things Have Changed

Author:Erica Jong

“The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”

Ifs Giving Mind Technology Changed Produce Tests Machines Satisfaction Tranquility Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.”

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

“I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.”

Funny Change Money Changed Machines Dollars Nothingness Things Change Funny Money Lending Money

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings