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“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.”

People Design Duty Machines Meaningless Arbitrary

Book:The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

Source: The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

“If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.”

“There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.”

Responsibility Duty Machines Paid Bills Verbs Insignificance Irregular Verbs

Author:W. H. Auden

“If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.”

Ifs Giving Persons Order Individual Forever Duty Machines Performances Down And Efficiency Slow Down

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.”

Moving Lost Duty Honor Picks Lonely Machines Hunger Loyalty These Days Satisfying Starting Over

Book:Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

“It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.”

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Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.”

Ifs Men Would Be Fire Duty Battle Disease Hundred Gun Machines Army If I Could One Man Exposure

Author:Richard Jordan

“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

“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.”

“The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.”

World Believe Running Night Found Forever Streets Duty Huge Terrible Morality Machines Crowds Thank God Typical Terrible Things Herds Day And Night Protestants Spaniards

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca