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“Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.”

People Easy Easier Respect Machines Arithmetic Calculating

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“National law has no place in cyberlaw. Where is cyberspace? If you don't like banking laws in the United States, set up your machine on the Grand Cayman Islands. Don't like the copyright laws in the United States? Set up your machine in China. Cyberlaw is global law, which is not going to be easy to handle, since we seemingly cannot even agree on world trade of automobile parts.”

Ifs World States Law Easy United United States Machines Agree Trade China Handle Islands Banking Automobile Copyright World Trade Cyberspace Copyright Law Cayman Islands

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It’s fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.”

Country Today Fighting Fun Easy Differences Machines Defeat Our Country Making A Difference Easy To Get You Can Make A Difference

Author:Rand Paul

“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.”

“Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.”

Body Political Nations Easy Powerful Machines Fortune Democratic Corruption Senate Transformed Easy Money

Book:Profiles in Courage

Source: Profiles in Courage

“So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?”

Believe Littles Easy Space Machines Don't Believe Bananas

Author:Karl Pilkington

“It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.”

Easy Comfortable Machines Stress

Author:Peter Jacobson

“My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.”

Has Beens Fighting Easy Issues Machines Mental Health Interfere Small Business Needles

Author:Angela Alioto

“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”

People World Next Wish Easy Imagine Creatures Machines Division Imagine That

Book:Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders, doing as you're told.”

People Thinking Want Order Causes Easy Responsibility Machines Bigger Following Unhappy Want Something Cogs Unhappy People Following Orders

Author:Ilona Andrews

“It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus”

People Persons Turns Easy Difficult Mistake Break Machines Brilliant Horrible Bitter Fixed Misunderstood Inventor Always Alone Hephaestus Horrible Mistakes

Author:Rick Riordan

“So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.”

Humans Kind Children Ideas Seems Might School Individual Easy Justice Human Beings Growing Air Machines Social Justice Realization Units Pacific Uneasiness Standardization

Book:The Ever-Present Past

Source: The Ever-Present Past

“We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine - technology - to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.”

People Ifs Knows Men Mean Earth Force Easy Walks Technology Know How Our Lives Influence Subjects Demand Machines Complexes Cease Making Money Filling Predestined

Book:POINTS OF REBELLION

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION