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“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...”

“My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.”

Way Body Simple Principles Car Approach Machines Complicated Straightforward Maintenance

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.”

Stills Seems Wonderful Machines Complicated Redemption Schemes Exquisite

Book:The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“The more complicated the machine, the more problems I find it has.”

Problem Machines Complicated

Author:Michele Scicolone

“The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.”

Ifs Men Want Use Used Demand Machines Increase Fellows Calm Complicated Engines Replaced Catastrophe Our Love Fellow Man

Author:Man Ray

“Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Ends Play Bits Simple Machines Add Investment Complicated Bored Composer Drummer

Author:Phil Collins

“There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.”

Stills Country Age Today Pleasure Creative Middle Creating Machines Workers Complicated Instance Mexico Steel Middle Ages Mills Creating Something Artisans Skilled Workers

Author:Erich Fromm

“...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE”

Whole Ignorance Planets Machines Library Complicated Permanent Ruined Exhibits Futility Foyers

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.”

Men World Feels Humans Made Lost Force Social Human Beings Powerful Modern Creation Built Machines Complicated Ownership Powerless Alienation Modern Society Man Made Things

Author:Erich Fromm

“You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.”

Years Kind Has Beens Soul Simple Theory Tasks Machines Complicated Your Soul Pet Devices

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

“Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.”

People Ifs World Way Humans Doe Age Nature Brain Progress Air Taught Victory Skins Machines Complicated Speed Coaches Celebrate Rely Mail Outrage Purses Salesman Heirs Activate

Author:Karl Kraus

“Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.”