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“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.”

Turns Conscious Machines Boxes Buying Gears Collectors Vintage Analog

Author:Martin Gore

“Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.”

Magic Machines Creeds Competence Gears Mesh

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.”

People Writing Machines Privilege Noble Gears

Author:Blaise Cendrars

“You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.”

Trying Two Used Bits Sound Four Type Capable Machines Come Up Guides Spots Limitation Kicks Hats Exploits Restriction Gears Snares

Author:Rob Brown

“I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.”

Found Strange Machines Obsession Buying Gears Analogue

Author:Moby

“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.”

People Thinking Littles Problem Bigs Process Company Creative Smart Machines Complexes Behave Substitutes Gears Big Companies

Author:Elon Musk

“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.”

Made Ends Wanted Choices Waiting Destiny Products Gun Shots Built Machines Let Me Belts Gears Spit Sewing Let Me Go Machine Guns Redos

Book:Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

Source: Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”

Believe Happens Universe Behinds Okay Machines Coincidence Fabulous Gears

Book:11/22/63: A Novel

Source: 11/22/63: A Novel

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Said I Can Facts Grows Can Do Born Missing Machines Praise Teeth Destroyed My Thoughts God Knows Gears Mother Night

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

People Heart Body Running Struggle Machines Sick Your Body Operations Wheels Gears So Sick

Author:Mario Savio

“Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.”

Thinking May Enough Remember Science Brain Machines Mathematics Disaster Mathematical Wheels Sand Grain Sublime Distrust Gears Delicacy Grains Of Sand Pascal

Book:The garden of Epicurus

Source: The garden of Epicurus

“In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch. For those who ride it can seem like the perfect vehicle for transport. For those who race, there's no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What's around the next corner? Who cares? You're flyin'!”

“The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark